4 ms·
If you paid hourly (instead of using a reserved instance) it costs $116840.88 per year (13.338 per hour * 24 * 365). A 1 year reservation + hourly charges for a
by helper 10y ago
If you paid hourly (instead of using a reserved instance) it costs $116840.88 per year (13.338 per hour * 24 * 365). A 1 year reservation + hourly charges for a year is $67197.96 (all up front).
- matt4077 10y agoSo this thing is worth about three humans in the western world :( (not that I don't understand that this could be said of many things, might actually be true in economic terms etc. It just never occured to me with other heavy machinery).
- nitrogen 10y agoIt's always fun when making devops forecasts to plot the date when the servers will be paid more than you due to anticipated growth.
- kabdib 10y agoYou can buy a server from Dell with 1.5 TB of RAM and four beefy processors (80 cores) for about $60K. You can power and cool it for a year for maybe $4K. Every time I look at AWS, it just doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint (even after you add another machine for redundancy, and remote hands -- you're ahead after 12 months).
- helper 10y agoI'm sure there are companies that will run this instance type 24/7 for years. But you can also spin one up for a short period of time, use it to do things you would normally need to do across a bunch of machines and then tear it down. Having this type of instance available via an API call is within seconds is really cool.