For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of
direct operational control.

Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate because it's all black box. 

Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control. 

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:46 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

On 1/26/22 16:41, Randy Bush wrote:

> s/de-risk/re-risk/
>
> it's just a different risk

I should have finished that sentence with "de-risk their infrastructure
spend", because the actual risk is in having to spend money upfront to
build the network.

For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of
direct operational control.

Mark <= who run way from a suggestion to run iBGP route reflectors in
AWS :-).

Mark.