3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS to Hetzner

Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by mike_hearn on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:11PM (#45619181)

Why would it be abuse? Serving e.g. map tiles on a busy site can get up to tens of thousands of qps, I'd have thought serving that from S3 would have made sense if it weren't so expensive.

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Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by Esophagus4 on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:24PM (#45619328)

I don’t know much about map tiles… but could that be done more effectively through a CDN or cache, and then have S3 behind it?

Then the CDN takes the beating. So this still sounds like S3 abuse to me.

But I leave room for being wrong here.

Edit: presumably if your site is big enough to serve 50k RPS it’s big enough for a cache?

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