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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by fidgewidge on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:30PM (#35102805)
You speak like clouds never have downtime, or don't charge you for space and power. Look at the article - that one company would needed to have paid more than their entire revenue to AWS for worse hardware. They'd have spent $400M in 3 years on the cloud! There are no "hidden costs" that can even begin to approach a fraction of that.

As for staff salaries, lol. It's not like AWS is self administering.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by oxfordmale on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:53PM (#35103047)
In the cloud, costs are transparent, as you receive a single monthly bill. When you self-host, there are many hidden expenses you would need to track down (energy, admin, maintenance, etc.)

The figures in the article are for illustration purposes only and should be taken with a large pinch of salt. The author doesn't detail what hardware they are running, what EC2 instances he has selected for comparison and how comparable the storage statistics are. I would also love to hear the Finance Department's version of his calculations.

AWS is more expensive than self-hosting. However, it is not as skewed as the author claims. Otherwise, very few companies would be using the cloud.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by botsbreeder on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:20PM (#35104439)
Costs like energy, admin, maintenance were included. The figures for on premise are NOT illustrative but real figures.

It is hard to believe how high cloud costs are.

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