

Comparing the Cost of Cloud vs. Colocation
Is colocation cheaper than using cloud computing services to run the same workload? It is if you run highly-utilized servers, according to Andres Hurtado, who recently ran a comparison using Amazon Web Services pricing as a benchmark. Andres is the Senior Consultant of Production Network Engineering and Architecture at SynerTech and knows a few things about data center cost analysis. posted a spreadsheet outlining his analysis, which finds that an equivalent workload would co