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> It costs us around $10k/month. As someone who develops web apps for startups not in SV, that seems incredibly expensive to me.

• michaelbuckbee 9y ago
  Well, it's a sliding scale isn't it? If you have less traffic/paying customers you can pull that back down.
• phamilton 9y ago
  It's the difference between 30 developers and 31 developers on payroll.
  • Rapzid 9y ago
    Haha, yeah. It's always interesting when you put it in that context. I often joke that AWS is our hardest working employee.
  • nurettin 9y ago
    That's amazing. I make less than 1/5th of that and it is considered among the top wages over here.