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Re:I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me by legutierr on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:32AM (#4188766)
Netflix does get massive discounts, though. I remember reading that it's like 70%.
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Re:I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me by encoderer on Monday July 02, 2012 @11:49AM (#4189337)
You're right, they do. But most of that discount is available to anybody whose willing to purchase reserved instances.
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Re:I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me by ceejayoz on Monday July 02, 2012 @03:10PM (#4190399)
Well, that plus this bit from the EC2 pricing page:

> Reserved Instances are eligible for volume discounts, which can save you an additional 10% when you spend more than $250,000 on Reserved Instances or an additional 20% when you spend more than $2,000,000 on Reserved Instances. Customers who spend more than $5,000,000 on Reserved Instances should contact us for additional discounts.

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Re:I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me by peterwwillis on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @09:34AM (#4193971)
Call me crazy, but if I spend 5 million dollars I want to own my hardware, not just rent it, and get some contracts in place.
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