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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by ibejoeb on Thursday April 04, 2019 @05:32PM (#19577321)
Yes, but it's still pretty much a straight cost offset. If you hold your own metal, you have to do all of that and still administer the database. Sure, there could be a little overlap in storage design, nut most of the managed systems have typical operational concerns at a button click: backup, restore, HA... Unless your fleet is huge and your workload is special, you're going to win with managed services.
Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by Scarbutt on Thursday April 04, 2019 @05:39PM (#19577379)
If you hold your own metal

That's going too much to the other extreme, ec2, droplets, etc.. are fine.

Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by late2part on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:47PM (#19577861)
define huge?
Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by dodobirdlord on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:52PM (#19579244)
Bigger than Netflix, assuming that you don't know something that Netflix doesn't.