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AWS is incredibly convenient, but it's priced at a premium. The main cost liability to building on AWS is the cost of bandwidth is insane, 5X the cost of Digita
by billmalarky 10y ago
AWS is incredibly convenient, but it's priced at a premium. The main cost liability to building on AWS is the cost of bandwidth is insane, 5X the cost of DigitalOcean or Linode, 10X the cost of co-location.
Of course this depends on the type of startup you are building, a video startup is gonna be crazy expensive on AWS, Non-media heavy SAAS it may not matter.
Of course you can always build on AWS and place a caching layer in front of your bandwidth heavy media using DigitalOcean boxes to save big.
- webtechgal 10y ago> Of course you can always build on AWS and place a caching layer in front of your bandwidth heavy media using DigitalOcean boxes to save big. This IS a brilliant idea!!
- billmalarky 10y agoI like reactions like that to my suggestions! I'm building a video startup so bandwidth solutions have been on my mind these days.