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Re:AWS mistakes to avoid by bbrazil on Sunday December 27, 2015 @05:23AM (#10797033)
It depends on which services, but for simpler services with well understood open source equivalents (e.g. route53 and BIND) you can probably manage two per sysadmin at a similar quality to AWS with a basic API. For something like RDS or Redshift, if you're very lucky you'll get away with one sysadmin per service.

This covers not just running the services, but keeping up to date with security updates, scaling the systems, feature additions, bug fixes and keeping up with the state of the art.

Services like RDS are an amazing net cost saving for small to medium users. Something like Cloudfront would cost you a million just to get going. Raw EC2 is nearer break even.

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Re:AWS mistakes to avoid by BogusIKnow on Sunday December 27, 2015 @07:24AM (#10797245)
"Something like Cloudfront would cost you a million just to get going."

We've used CDNs in the past, way below a million/year for a medium, growing startup. care to elaborate?

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Re:AWS mistakes to avoid by cachesking on Monday December 28, 2015 @03:11PM (#10803078)
Ti believe the context is running a CDN as opposed to using.
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