No, the correct analogy would be paying for, maintaining, and storing enough servers for Black Friday year round when the option existg to rent them on Black Friday for 1% the cost.
Re:What Happened to EVs?
by strix_varius on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:50AM
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What exactly do you think AWS does mate, during black Friday?
Exactly my point
Re:What Happened to EVs?
by strix_varius on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:47AM
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Unless your point is that someone should somehow rent an extra bedroom in their own house, it isn't. Such things aren't fungible.
When provisioning servers, do you average your throughput and get enough capacity for that average?
Of course not, that would be assinine. You need to be able to serve 24 hours a day, even - especially - during your edge cases. Follow your advice and explain to the CEO that since Black Friday is a "low frequency event," it's fine that your site was down during that one day.
A better argument is that you should choose things, including houses and cars, based on edge cases since that is where meaningful differentiation occurs. If I take one road trip each quarter and my car is unable to handle it, then I bought the wrong car.