Luke Roquet recently spoke to a customer who recounted the shock of getting a $700,000 bill for a single data science workload running in the cloud. When Roquet, who is senior vice president of product marketing at Cloudera, related the story to another customer, he learned that that company had received a $400,000 tab for a similar job just the week before.
Such stories should belie the common myth that cloud computing is always about saving money. In fact, “most executives I’ve talked to say that moving an equivalent workload from on-premises to the cloud results in about a 30% cost increase,” said Roquet.
