Re:Four billion messages an hour: benchmarking Deepstream th...
by xyzzy123 on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:50AM
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Yep. Aws is funny. You want to at do it first, then it doesnt make sense at e.g the 10k per month price point. So you do something else.
Then you come back when you have due diligence and compliance and availability requirements. And you see how much that is really costing you with the arrangements you have.
Finally if you're super successful, you could self host or otherwise. But "rack costs" (naively) trade off against people and auditors.
Summary: AWS is expensive, especially for bandwidth. Practically if your business requirements are not bandwidth intensive, it ends up being paradoxically cheaper than the alternatives if your business involves legal agreements and things like availability commitments to customers.
Then you come back when you have due diligence and compliance and availability requirements. And you see how much that is really costing you with the arrangements you have.
Finally if you're super successful, you could self host or otherwise. But "rack costs" (naively) trade off against people and auditors.
Summary: AWS is expensive, especially for bandwidth. Practically if your business requirements are not bandwidth intensive, it ends up being paradoxically cheaper than the alternatives if your business involves legal agreements and things like availability commitments to customers.