How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by lvncelot on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:14AM (#23668044)

You pay them monthly instead of hourly, also you have to manage them yourself.

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by redis_mlc on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:34PM (#23672605)

How to manage a bare metal server running CentOS automatically:

Add this cron job:

yum -y update

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by thu2111 on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:51AM (#23675437)

It's not quite that easy, is it.

At minimum you need a data replication and backup strategy. You're exposed to things like drive and RAM failures on dedicated hosts, so you'd need to think about RAID at least, unless you're running a system that clusters at a higher level (but then you need multiple machines).

However this is basically a matter of learning or hiring/renting a sysadmin to do it for you.

MTBF stats for different classes of hardware at different hosts would be valuable to have, as it can be affected by things like datacenter temperature. But I never heard of such a dataset.

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