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Re:MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% le... by mianos on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:13PM (#9788815)
There are not a lot of Pinterest-sized businesses. :) Amazon is documented as giving these guys some serious discounts. Even a cursory analysis of the costs of running at this at scale on AWS shows it's bad value at 'recommended retail' prices.
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Re:MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% le... by takeda on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:56PM (#9788917)
> Amazon is documented as giving these guys some serious discounts.

So do hardware vendors.

I think this kind of argument doesn't help, once you are big you get discounts everywhere.

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