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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by vorpalhex on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:24AM (#22413425)
If you need a few servers, then yeah, AWS is super pricey and locked in.

If you need 50 engineers to be able to manage 200ish servers, well, uh, you just don't have a ton of options.

Obviously not everyone falls into that second category but plenty do.

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by snark42 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @02:39PM (#22416562)
> If you need 50 engineers to be able to manage 200ish servers, well, uh, you just don't have a ton of options.

Who needs 50 engineers for 200 servers? My IT team manages 750 servers in 5 co-locations + 200 end users + DBA responsibilities with 5. If we grow above 1000 we might need to hire a 6th.

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