Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?

Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by necovek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:20AM (#24977566)

I think the point GP was making is that you could have likely started off much cheaper, eg. with 2k/month of AWS costs before needing to "simply" scale at eg. 12 months, especially so if using managed services and not just bare ec2 instances.

I personally think there's room for both, and I think hybrids between on-prem and cloud are the ideal for long running apps: you size your on-prem infrastructure to handle 99% of the load, and scale to the cloud for that one-off peak.

That's still pretty complicated due to different types of vendor lock in (or lock out in some cases). Google has invested in k8s to get people some value for moving away from AWS.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by bsenftner on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:19AM (#24979351)

My application had (still would have) very high CPU requirements, and 2k/month would have got me spending more money than necessary. When I started I bought 1 server with the capacity I needed and put that in co-lo for $75 a month. That little puppie was equal to $10K a month at AWS, so why would I want to use AWS again? Just do the math, even 1 server out performs and is exponentially less expensive. The cloud has the majority of engineers looking like morons from a financial literacy perspective.

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