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Re:We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner by darth_avocado on Thursday November 13, 2025 @01:04PM (#45918257)
Highly doubt that. MongoDB has 5000 well paid employees and is not a big loss making enterprise. If most of the cost was pass through to AWS, they’d not be able to do that. Their quarterly revenue is $500M+ but also spend $200M in sales and marketing and $180M in R&D. (All based on their filings)
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Re:We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner by computerfan494 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:22PM (#45920725)
You can look at this particular bill and observe that more than 50% of the cost was going to AWS.
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Re:We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner by MagicMoonlight on Thursday November 13, 2025 @05:18PM (#45921404)
If they’re a reseller of AWS, which they will be, they decide the rates that get charged.
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Re:We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner by computerfan494 on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:41AM (#45924493)
Yes, and my point is that this customer switching to running their own MongoDB instances on EC2 like Atlas does would reduce the bill by less than 50% because the rates that they are charging mean that their cut is less than what AWS is getting from this customer.
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