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> AWS bandwidth is easily anywhere from 5x to 50x as expensive as elsewhere depending on location Manpower and a Stable network is anywhere from 100x to 1000x

• vidarh 10y ago
  That's not my experience. My experience is that operating systems outside of AWS is not much different in terms of staff time than operating systems on AWS, and for most people network availability issues are far down the list of outage reasons. I've not ever seen any non-AWS setups where manpower or network stability contributed anywhere remotely enough to operations to eat up the cost advantage over hosting elsewhere. There are good reasons to use AWS, if you can leverage their various services, and hosting isn't a large part of your cost, but price is not it.
  • merb 10y ago
    Really you probably never hired people.
    • vidarh 10y ago
      I have hired dozens of engineers over the last 20+ years I've done this, so maybe you shouldn't jump to conclusions to you have no basis for.