Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
by littlestymaar on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:41PM
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> Number 1 reason I'm in a datacenter is to swap a dead drive.
No doubt about that, when you have tens of thousands of drive you end up replacing some of them all the time, but not 15% of them every year…
> Oct 2020, StorONE announced a 1PB All-Flash array for $499k.
With Optane and all, right? The kind of things that's a massive overkill if your workload allows you to use Glacier…
> Other examples which are close to their pricing.
In that list, the only offers that are close to this pricing (but still almost 20% cheaper) also includes several years of support (which you probably don't want if you're Canva's scale).
No doubt about that, when you have tens of thousands of drive you end up replacing some of them all the time, but not 15% of them every year…
> Oct 2020, StorONE announced a 1PB All-Flash array for $499k.
With Optane and all, right? The kind of things that's a massive overkill if your workload allows you to use Glacier…
> Other examples which are close to their pricing.
In that list, the only offers that are close to this pricing (but still almost 20% cheaper) also includes several years of support (which you probably don't want if you're Canva's scale).