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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by jjav on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:40PM (#29167163)
> AWS is more cost-effective if you use high-level AWS services instead of just storing files in the cloud.

Mostly this only works when your utilization is low(ish). Once you have high load 24x7, the AWS profit margin will quickly overtake the self-hosted solution.

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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by cestith on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:15PM (#29167597)
With spiky utilization, you're buying and powering a lot of hardware to sit idle a good portion of the time.
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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by jjav on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @09:51PM (#29170515)
Exactly, that is why if utilization is particularly spiky or unpredictable, that's a perfect use case for AWS (or similar).
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