> There's no reason why the major cloud providers need be considered more than data center providers
They have no incentive to do this or to offer low cost bare metal instances. If anything, the opposite incentive exists in my experience: make these instances extremely expensive and push everyone to cheaper, locked in managed services. Because surely anyone that needs bare metal has fat stacks of cash?!
Making public cloud a commodity kills the major public cloud providers valuation, IMO.
That's what we should hope projects like Ubicloud can provide, a way for the mid-tier providers that would've done PHP-hosting 10-15 years ago to have a competitive and _portable_ service offering.
They have no incentive to do this or to offer low cost bare metal instances. If anything, the opposite incentive exists in my experience: make these instances extremely expensive and push everyone to cheaper, locked in managed services. Because surely anyone that needs bare metal has fat stacks of cash?!
Making public cloud a commodity kills the major public cloud providers valuation, IMO.