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Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by zxcmx on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:00AM (#14164458)
It's not ec2, it's the ecosystem.

DDOS, multi-path, multi-az, dr, snapshots, hardware redundancy, elasticity, freedom from datacenter contracts, fiber contracts, driving to rack stuff, jammed fingers, staff costs, firmware bugs, bad hardware batches, cdn, compliance costs. I have more but I'll stop there.

It doesn't make sense at very small or large scales but it captures a hell of a lot of the middle.

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Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by chx on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:48PM (#14167178)
Most of what you described is colo and not dedicated boxes...
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Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by ericd on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:33AM (#14176864)
And honestly, even colo doesn't take that much time unless you're scaling up like crazy. Once we racked our machines, we almost never had to touch them. You can get a LOT of resources in a single box for $10k/server these days.
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