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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by emodendroket on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:43AM (#21873174)
If there were no economies of scale it certainly would seem strange that it could possibly be cheaper to rent computers from Amazon than to run your own data center.
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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by wongarsu on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:55AM (#21873263)
Renting servers from Hetzner is a lot cheaper than using AWS. If you get your uplink figured out then running your own servers is also cheaper.
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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by emodendroket on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @12:17PM (#21873413)
Sure, if you discount the administrative work to keep them up it might be.
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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by dunkelheit on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:47PM (#21874809)
Operating AWS and the datacenters involves massive economies of scale. Writing the software that powers AWS - not so much.
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Re:Downsides to working at a tech giant by emodendroket on Friday December 27, 2019 @11:48PM (#21897157)
Yes, but since most of us (I think, anyways) are working on Web-hosted software that stuff all matters. It also matters that an Amazon or Facebook has whole teams dedicated to developer tools, operations management, and so on.
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