Re:AWS us-east-2 outage
by rich_sasha on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:20AM
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Well, I certainly couldn't build a data centre.
But i worked for a small/medium company that built two. Complete with data replication across datacentres, fancy fire suppression, redundant communications between them etc. The works. Oh and redundant power supply on both sites, battery and generator.
Admittedly this was before the cloud took off, or around the cusp of it. But we then did a calculation to compare the costs. I wasn't involved, but the result was that even factoring in the cost of the hardware, data centers and extra staff (if any; configuring AWS seems a profession in it's own right) it was still cheaper over 3-5 years to DIY.
We used a lot of computer, but so does Zoom I'd imagine.
But i worked for a small/medium company that built two. Complete with data replication across datacentres, fancy fire suppression, redundant communications between them etc. The works. Oh and redundant power supply on both sites, battery and generator.
Admittedly this was before the cloud took off, or around the cusp of it. But we then did a calculation to compare the costs. I wasn't involved, but the result was that even factoring in the cost of the hardware, data centers and extra staff (if any; configuring AWS seems a profession in it's own right) it was still cheaper over 3-5 years to DIY.
We used a lot of computer, but so does Zoom I'd imagine.