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Re:Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multipl... by dijit on Sunday September 08, 2019 @06:12AM (#20909588)
No, it's cheaper on Azure (and they give us some huge discounts because we're so MS heavy).

But they really gouge the other cloud providers (GCP/AWS) on licensing, more than a third of our infra costs are just windows licenses (when looking only at cloud).

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Re:Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multipl... by kamyarg on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:04AM (#20910958)
> more than a third of our infra costs are just windows licenses

Wow, that is brutal.

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