Renting something at a rate that'd be purchased in less than 2 years seems very myopic to me. And yeah it depreciates, but not to zero. So if you're speaking of the breakeven point after liquidation, you're probably there in well under a year at those rental prices.
reply> Renting something at a rate that'd be purchased in less than 2 years seems very myopic to me
replyAnd yet basically all AWS customers are doing exactly that. Turns out that making CAPEX "someone else's problem" is worth quite a lot to many businesses