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When you create the spreadsheet, do you price in running servers 24x7 or using elastic capacity?
by mlrtime 8y ago
When you create the spreadsheet, do you price in running servers 24x7 or using elastic capacity?
- smilliken 8y ago(not the parent) We've seen an even wider cost disparity on colo and dedicated servers vs AWS. More than 5x. It's easy for us to estimate because databases and web servers need to be on all the time, and those dominate costs.
- mmt 8y agoAnd if considering elastic capacity, do you include the cost of the engineering effort required to take advantage of it? A similar question applies to any other dynamic cost-reduction measure, such as spot instances. I recall reading an announcement that GCP was starting only charging for actually-used vCPUs, rather than all that were provisioned, a form of automatic elastic cost-savings, although it was still more expensive than a DIY method. AFAIK, AWS doesn't do anything like that.
- vidarh 8y agoWe had too low variations in load over the day to make elastic usage cost effective for the most part, so it made very little difference. Indeed, one of the most cost effective ways of using AWS is to not use it, but be ready to use it to handle traffic spikes. Do that and you can load your dedicated servers much closer to capacity, while almost never having to spin any instances up.