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This "single box" has a lot of computing units as on AWS EC2.
by a012 8y ago
This "single box" has a lot of computing units as on AWS EC2.
- nostrademons 8y agoThat should tell you a lot about the price you pay for using AWS.
- rhizome 8y agoThe figure I saw around maybe 2015 was that AWS (maybe Heroku) is 10x more expensive and bare metal is 10x more efficient/faster, lending a 100x difference in price-performance. Both factors are probably larger nowadays.
- some_account 8y agoIt's the convenience and the enormous ecosystem of plug and play services that make AWS do good for point and click building architectures. You can do all of it locally (except multi zone and multi region reliability) but it would take a lot of configuration, skills and you wouldn't have the same Gui for everything. AWS is not cheap but companies don't care, because without it, you have to pay to find experts and keep them happy, which is a lot harder.
- aaronblohowiak 8y agoThose figures are not in line with my understanding.
- rhizome 8y agoI'll try to find the article, I think it might have been Bitnami or Joyent who ran it. Some older discussion on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165095