Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs
by phkahler on Monday January 24, 2022 @11:21AM
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It's the "weaving" part that has non-specific cost. If you have skill at weaving together pieces of the cloud in an optimal way, you can save money. Just like if you have skill in putting together your own infrastructure you can save money. I can see spending money on services, but I don't understand why people invest brain capacity on vendor-specific solutions.
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How much extra time & development effort does it take to weave the services the right way to realize those savings, as opposed to doing it the simpler, old-school way on bare-metal?
In my bare-metal-hosted projects I can afford to do a lot of things that would be a major no-no in the cloud because I have so much hardware resources I can save development time doing things inefficiently and still come out ahead in terms of costs.