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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by saas_co_de on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:43AM (#16458647)
> nobody tracks how much of their time gets eaten up by doing devops stuff

This has been my experience working with companies that use cloud services as well.

Another big waste of time is on application optimization especially around database usage. Cloud services tend to provide very low IOPS storage (and then charge exorbitant amounts for semi-decent performance) which forces spending a lot of wasted time on optimization which would never be an issue on dedicated hardware.

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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by vidarh on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:31PM (#16460688)
> This has been my experience working with companies that use cloud services as well.

It's generally the case across large parts of IT. I confused the heck out of the first manager I started sending itemized weekly reports of the cost of each functional area and feature requests (based on average salary per job description), as he'd never seen it before. But it very quickly changed a lot of behaviors when they realized the value of the resources spent on various features.

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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by boundlessdreamz on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:34PM (#16460369)
Only amazon though. This is something that infuriates me about RDS.On google cloud IOPS performance is not based on instance size.
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