Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong?

Re:Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong? by sjducb on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:02AM (#37553523)

I help big companies reduce their cloud costs. Frequently I recommend moving Postgres and Kubernetes to on-prem.

When you’re spending over $1 million per year on either of those then you’ll save a lot of money by moving to on-prem.

The ideal cloud lifecycle is to iterate quickly on the cloud while you find product market fit, then when you know what you need start moving to on-prem to save money.

I don’t think you’ll ever need to migrate to AWS.

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Re:Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong? by hnGuyReaderDude on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:04AM (#37556273)

Is one million really the point where on prem becomes cheaper? I would think it’s much more like 10 million. Between having to pay server engineers and regional distribution and power costs I’d think it adds up to far more than 1 million. Where am I doing my math wrong?

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Re:Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong? by Agingcoder on Monday September 18, 2023 @11:29AM (#37557565)

In a large company the engineers , regional distribution etc are already there and pis for by other parts of the company I think. Your math is otherwise correct.

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Re:Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong? by sjducb on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:30AM (#37567883)

Exactly.

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