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title: "The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-cloud-is-over-engineered-and-overpriced-apexmks9m
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9aRtwj9xA
type: video:youtube
source: "Tom Delalande"
published: 2026-06-22T14:40:25.732Z
updated: 2026-06-22T16:27:31.094Z
reading_time: 14
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced

**[Tom Delalande](https://daily.dev/sources/tom_delalande)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Let's spin up a server a simpler way.

I'm experimenting with some background music, let me know what you think.

In this video I will be showing how to use fundamentals to spin up a server, replacing cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud Provider and Microsoft Azure with Linux, Docker and Git. For many applications, the tools we use are grossly over-engineered. I'm trying to force myself to rethink my approach and use simpler tools. Hosting this server is part of that.

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