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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by baq on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @09:34AM (#45746639)
I remember having to put in orders for pallets of servers which then ended up storage somewhere because there were not enough people to carry and wire them up and/or there wasn't enough rack space to install them.

Having an ability to spin up a server or a vm when you need it without having to ask a single question is very liberating. Sometimes such elasticity is exactly what's needed. OTOH other people's servers aren't always the wise choice, but you have to know both environments to make the right choice, and nowadays I feel most people don't really know anything about bare metal.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by lazyfanatic42 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @09:43AM (#45746744)
the best is having rackspace & power but not enough cooling, hahaha murder me
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by snark42 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:15AM (#45747923)
That only happens when you have your own data center. That's a whole different issue and most people with their own hardware don't have their own data centers as it's not particularly cost efficient except at incredibly large scale.
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by iso1631 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:00AM (#45747706)
I spin up a VM on my xen vm estate whenever I want it with just some clickops or teraform (depending on the environment)
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by baq on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:31PM (#45751856)
What do you think the pallets of servers were intended for
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by kijin on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:34AM (#45747371)
That's the beauty of VMs.

Luckily, Amazon is far from the only VM provider out there, so this discussion doesn't need to be polarized between "AWS everything" and "on-premise everything". You can rent VMs elsewhere for a fraction of the cost. There are many places that will rent you bare metal servers by the hour, just as if they were VMs. You can even mix VMs and bare metal servers in the same datacenter.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by kaydub on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:53PM (#45754666)
Not just spin up a server, you can spin up whole regions, even in foreign countries, at the click of a button.
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