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Re:AWS costs every programmer should know by tatersolid on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:14AM (#20163720)
> What is there to say? There are huge scale inefficiencies in maintaining a small datacenter.

At $dayjob we have a small DC (8 racks). We’re facing chiller, UPS, and core switching/cabling replacements all within the next two years.

We did the math, public Cloud is cheaper for us, especially since about 80% of our instances can be shut down outside business hours.

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Re:AWS costs every programmer should know by joncrane on Thursday June 13, 2019 @05:14PM (#20178623)
Nice. It's always nice to see grass roots use cases for Cloud.
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