Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
by mschuster91 on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:16PM
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> If you want to survive a cloud outage, you need a multi-AZ or multi-region deployment, and that costs developer hours.
RDS databases are one click to set up in multi-AZ, and if your stack is Kubernetes based or at least EC2 autoscale capable it isn't much more work to make it multi-AZ as well.
Multi-Region deployments however, these are indeed expensive and nasty to set up.
This is an important factor to remember when evaluating could costs. If you want to survive a cloud outage, you need a multi-AZ or multi-region deployment, and that costs developer hours. And you need to deal with the potentially catastrophic cost of inter-AZ or inter-region traffic, which can be catastrophic and/or cost more developer hours to mitigate.