Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs

Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by littlestymaar on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:10AM (#36388920)

Millions of dollars per year isn't exactly a trivial amount of money either… Nobody said it's some super easy thing one could do on their free time, but given the scale it makes sense to build the knowledge in-house instead of getting vendor-locked-in at the most expensive service provider on the market.

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Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by notyourwork on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:08AM (#36391918)

Id argue this isn’t true until your spend surpasses $100MM. Lower amounts don’t justify the extra headache of on-prem.

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Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by pc86 on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:24AM (#36392124)

I know we're just arguing about amounts at this point but that's pushing $2M a week. It seems on on-prem would make financial sense long before that.

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Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by shawabawa3 on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:22PM (#36394720)

Depends on your requirements. If you need 11 nines durability S3 is probably still cheaper

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Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by littlestymaar on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:49PM (#36395738)

I really hope that Canva's executive dont believe their product need such garantees…

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Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by yencabulator on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:50PM (#36398363)

There's also the hybrids. Only storing "unlikely to be accessed" data on S3 would likely remove a huge part of the AWS bill, while significantly limiting the size of the on-prem data set.

Of all the possible related problems, object storage is the easiest.

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