Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year
by Spooky23 on Friday July 24, 2015 @09:13AM
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You'll always be able to engineer a better system for a particular known purpose.
The magic of AWS is that the transactional nature of it gives you more flexibility. I was working with somebody with about a storage requirement that will be in the 800-900TB range. But to hit the price point they want, they'd be buying a 1PB capacity solution.
The catch is, what's next? If they exceed their growth projection (a strong possibility), they need to spend $$$ in capital funds to buy some large block of capacity. That procurement takes time. Implementation requires more planning.
With Amazon, the prices are high/competitive, but the marginal cost of a unit of capacity is the cost of that capacity!
On the other hand, this user also has a large transaction system with well known performance an scaling characteristics. In their case, their buying power and size makes it much cheaper (by 3x) to host in a datacenter with customer-owned equipment.
The magic of AWS is that the transactional nature of it gives you more flexibility. I was working with somebody with about a storage requirement that will be in the 800-900TB range. But to hit the price point they want, they'd be buying a 1PB capacity solution.
The catch is, what's next? If they exceed their growth projection (a strong possibility), they need to spend $$$ in capital funds to buy some large block of capacity. That procurement takes time. Implementation requires more planning.
With Amazon, the prices are high/competitive, but the marginal cost of a unit of capacity is the cost of that capacity!
On the other hand, this user also has a large transaction system with well known performance an scaling characteristics. In their case, their buying power and size makes it much cheaper (by 3x) to host in a datacenter with customer-owned equipment.