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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by jwr on Sunday June 28, 2020 @03:57PM (#23671575)
The thing I don't understand is why would people consider AWS to have lower "ops" costs?

I can deploy my SaaS either to VPS servers (AWS, DigitalOcean, Azure, etc) or to physical servers. Both deployments use the same ansible automation. The only difference is that I additionally use terraform to set up the cloud instances.

In every case, if a machine fails it is my problem.

Where is the savings on ops/devops?

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by kuschku on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:56AM (#23800391)
Hilariously, this whole thing is again showing up as issue on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798347
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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by kuschku on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:00AM (#23690722)
> Where is the savings on ops/devops?

I don't know either, I've always used european dedicated hosters.

But apparently the typical YC user needs to pay 300'000$/year for a dedicated ops person just to run an ansible script?

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