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You don't have to be Netflix to get AWS, GCP and MS to play against each on pricing. I've seen a number of my clients build a prototype on each platforms, and t
by wiremine 9y ago
You don't have to be Netflix to get AWS, GCP and MS to play against each on pricing. I've seen a number of my clients build a prototype on each platforms, and then use it to make final decision. Part of that final decision is having the cloud vendors compete on price.
I personally haven't seen any massive price breaks, but there definitely is room the margins.
- Twirrim 9y agoFor years Dell would let it "leak" out to the press that they were looking at supporting AMD chips. It would happen every year like clockwork. Then after a month you'd hear that Dell and Intel had come up with a new deal to remain Intel exclusive.
- nandhp 9y agoHasn't Dell offered AMD chips for a long time? Dell currently sells AMD-based laptops, and was doing so back in 2008 as well. For example, this Ryzen laptop: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-5000/spd/inspiron-15-5575-laptop http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-...
- sitkack 9y agoThese are probably to prevent action from the FTC.
- ggg9990 9y agoI think they are talking about when Dell made serious profits in PCs.
- acdha 9y agoBefore then – in the 90s both Intel and Microsoft used a lot of backroom deals to keep big vendors exclusive. If memory serves it took the Opteron’s crushing performance advantage before we started seeing that break for Intel servers; Linux users for years were stuck paying for OEM Windows installs which were never used.
- Twirrim 9y agoYes, but I've been around the industry a while. I specifically remember this happening during the late 90s and just in to the 2000s. It was occurring at a time when AMD was fairly firmly beating Intel on a straight $/performance basis (~K6 era). If Dell had started shipping AMD based systems back then it could have been a big game changer. The general narrative around the tech press at the time was that Intel knew this and were desperate to keep Dell as Intel exclusive.
- awakeasleep 9y agoReally playing these companies against each other would mean dynamically balancing your services across the providers based on pricing
- wiremine 9y agoI've love to see some open source tools that manage this automagically for me. :-) It would also require an architecture that supports multiple interfaces. Totally doable (the facade pattern comes to mind) but you'd want to calculate the TCO to see it works out financially.
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- mrkurt 9y agoShameless plug: we have an open source tool you can build stuff like this on. It'll run any logic you can implement in JavaScript, we have people doing things like "send traffic to backend with lowest latency" already, it'd be pretty easy to pull in some API data to pick based on cost. https://github.com/superfly/fly https://github.com/superfly/fly
- cortesoft 9y agoI work for a large CDN. Lots of big customers do this, they shift their traffic around between different CDNs based on a lot of metrics, including price and performance.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoI also work for a CDN. Some of our stuff dynamically utilizes other CDNs. A customer might go try and test deploy something and we might use (AWS or whatever) to do it. It's CDNs all the way down.
- mrkurt 9y agoI work for a company people use to build CDNs. Just another turtle. :D
- wpietri 9y agoIf it's a final decision, then most of the cost is in the future, far beyond the reach of the initial quotes. I've seen too many companies turn extractive (including, of course, that same Microsoft) to ever use the words "final" next to "platform decision".