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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by darkwater on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:35AM (#22413512)
> You get what you pay for. You can pay a lot of money and have almost no worries (and lots of free time), or pay a little money and have lots of worries (and no free time).

This is, in my experience, quite a false statement when talking about AWS. You are either a (team of) 10x engineer(s) capable of anything or as you grow in people and services you will need to use a good chunk of your developer time managing AWS, or hire a dedicated person (sysadmin).

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by peterwwillis on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:32PM (#22418705)
There are literally compete turn-key solutions in AWS marketplace to most things any business needs to do that you don't need to be an engineer to use. A monkey who can read a walk-through with screenshots can build clusters of apps and CI/CD pipelines with AWS. And there are thousands of companies that you can pay to help manage your AWS resources.

Just because businesses hire dedicated backed people doesn't mean they actually need to, they just feel better about it when they do, because that's how it was always done before.

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