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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by throwaway894345 on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:59PM (#24970951)
> Sure, and they're all complexities which we solved 30+ years ago.

The argument isn't that they are solved or not, but the cost of implementing and maintaining them vs AWS.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by kikimora on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @05:13PM (#24993584)
I never say a whop running on AWS and not having a person managing it. Said person always has enough skill to replicate same setup on a dedicated hardware/VPS. I don't say such shops does not exists, it just I never saw them.

To me AWS killer features are RDS and ability to provision 100 servers in a few minutes. Most of the time scaling is not needed and RDS alone cannot justify the cost of AWS.

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