Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of...
by baddox on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:43AM
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A slightly similar other reason could be that your server costs are so low relative to the size of your business that the ROI of moving off of AWS doesn’t make sense for the conceivable future.
I imagine this could be the case for a lot of smaller tech startups, and perhaps even some larger companies that don’t have significant web traffic or ongoing real-time computer services.
Something like Gusto might be a good example. I would guess that each of their paying customers (employees of companies using them) leads to only a handful of initial or yearly setup tasks and maybe a handful of web requests per month, but represents solid revenue.
The most obvious counterexamples would be any company with persistence real-time services, like Dropbox or Mixpanel, or companies with a huge number of web requests with a very small rate of conversion to revenue, like an ad network or an ad-supported social network or media site.
I imagine this could be the case for a lot of smaller tech startups, and perhaps even some larger companies that don’t have significant web traffic or ongoing real-time computer services.
Something like Gusto might be a good example. I would guess that each of their paying customers (employees of companies using them) leads to only a handful of initial or yearly setup tasks and maybe a handful of web requests per month, but represents solid revenue.
The most obvious counterexamples would be any company with persistence real-time services, like Dropbox or Mixpanel, or companies with a huge number of web requests with a very small rate of conversion to revenue, like an ad network or an ad-supported social network or media site.