Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of...
by carlsborg on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:09AM
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IMO there are many many more reasons:
- you need to iterate rapidly with with scale and reliability. if you have the right expertise this becomes very quick to setup. it lets you focus 100% on product iterations.
- you need (predictable) on-demand compute for crunching large amounts of data or running some batch jobs. it just doesn't make sense to do this on your own equipment.
- your median cpu utilization is low, so you want to save costs and you move to a serverless architecture, effectively moving the cpu utilization you pay for to 100%.
- But most importantly AWS isn't just compute and storage primitives: AWS has a vast array of abstractions on top of the cloud primitives: managed clusters, machine learning services, virtual desktops, app streaming, CI/CD pipelines, built-in IAM and Role based access control, to name a few !
Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of...
by mooreds on Sunday February 25, 2018 @12:12PM
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Don't forget all of the cloud providers offer a robust sets of APIs and SDKs to automate provisioning of all these services. That is valuable apart from the actual service.
- you need to iterate rapidly with with scale and reliability. if you have the right expertise this becomes very quick to setup. it lets you focus 100% on product iterations.
- you need (predictable) on-demand compute for crunching large amounts of data or running some batch jobs. it just doesn't make sense to do this on your own equipment.
- your median cpu utilization is low, so you want to save costs and you move to a serverless architecture, effectively moving the cpu utilization you pay for to 100%.
- But most importantly AWS isn't just compute and storage primitives: AWS has a vast array of abstractions on top of the cloud primitives: managed clusters, machine learning services, virtual desktops, app streaming, CI/CD pipelines, built-in IAM and Role based access control, to name a few !