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Re:The Cloud by x0x0 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:39PM (#20639960)
I would bet the vast vast majority of aws customers are not there because of the dynamic resource scaling. Rather, they're there because aws has become the default system provider. At least for the sfbay startup.

I agree, they are very expensive for what you get at any even modest scale. (Except for s3 which is absolutely amazing). However, if you want to run your own stuff, you're buying into knowing the details of how it works. eg you better understand what vacuum is for pg, and how it interacts with availability, and be willing to create backups, etc. AWS does do real work; it's just expensive.

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Re:The Cloud by themattress on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:32PM (#20640716)
At one of my previous gigs there was a big push to get out of the colo and into the cloud, part of which because of perceived “cost savings” vs running our own hardware. I think most of it was “everyone else is moving to AWS”.

All I know is we never had a $30,000 “oopsie” in the data center because a dev left a bunch of stuff running they should have shut down.

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