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Bingo. From the perspective of a Fortune (checks list) 15 company: AWS saves us a fortune. No facilities costs all over the world with power/real estate/lawyer
by owenmarshall 9y ago
Bingo.
From the perspective of a Fortune (checks list) 15 company: AWS saves us a fortune. No facilities costs all over the world with power/real estate/lawyers to handle local laws. No data center engineers across the globe. A solid discount on list. Consistent bills (thanks to judicious RI buys) and servers that are available in minutes - not weeks (have you ever seen enterprise IT ticketing practices?!)
If we had two orders of magnitude fewer employees/servers/locations AWS wouldn't make sense. But at this scale nothing else makes sense.
- hueving 9y agoIf you have reserved instance style workloads and aws is saving you money, it sounds like your private data centers were just grossly mismanaged or you have a negligible compute load. AWS was likely just a way to overhaul inefficiencies in a legacy IT org. Someone will be able to do the same thing in 5 years moving you from AWS back to self-hosted.
- ubernetes 9y agoPeople really need to stop. There is no Fortune 15. I get that your e-peen needs all the help it can get, but this is like a grown adult giving their age as 41 "and 3 quarters".