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Why buy a 10-100k car when you can pay the incrementally per use? You pay per use with AWS instead of buying physical servers right?
by yomly 8y ago
Why buy a 10-100k car when you can pay the incrementally per use?
You pay per use with AWS instead of buying physical servers right?
- jlarocco 8y ago> Why buy a 10-100k car when you can pay the incrementally per use? Because it's cheaper over the long run.
- hopler 8y agoNot if you have access to public transit but need "last mile" support.
- godot 8y agoConversely, bulk buying saves money -- you buy toilet paper and paper towels in bulk, buy a bag of 20 lbs of rice instead of 2 lbs at a time, etc. So it probably depends on the individual's financial situation and where a car ride falls in terms of buying bulk vs incrementally. A lot of the expense about physical servers is also the maintenance and having employees' time to manage them. A car requires some maintenance but arguably less so than that, so perhaps not the closest comparison.
- CryoLogic 8y agoAWS is extraordinarily expensive when it comes to bandwidth pricing. The same could be applied to a car - it depends on your use case. Do you haul goods? Go in the mountains? Live out of a major city with poorly mapped roads?