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Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted? by ilaksh on Saturday February 11, 2012 @05:30PM (#3580372)
Right, its a proxy for all of their costs, but when the pricing and hardware stays the same while hardware and bandwidth costs decline, that means the value is declining.
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Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted? by bingbing on Saturday February 11, 2012 @05:46PM (#3580408)
Hardware and bandwidth aren't as much of a cost factor as datacenter power / cooling.

When systems can support more memory (and adequate cpu to utilize it) per watt, then pricing should decrease.

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