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

Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by sokoloff on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:21AM (#23668868)

Any employee comes with overhead costs ($$ and time and risk). Lots of side projects get off the ground only because people don’t have to cover the fixed quantum of costs that hiring an employee brings.

“If this doesn’t take off, I’m on the hook for ~$100/month when it could have been under $10/month“ just isn’t that compelling.

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by marcosdumay on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:20AM (#23669322)

Ops has a low baseline complexity, and scales more or less linearly with usage on low usage scenarios.

It's something worth optimizing, but the idea that it will break a starting initiative isn't realistic.

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