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Your math isnt wrong but the load isnt simply averaged out over the entire day. There will be peak capacity times way way higher than the lowest times. I would
by thinkingkong 8y ago
Your math isnt wrong but the load isnt simply averaged out over the entire day. There will be peak capacity times way way higher than the lowest times. I would guess orders of magnitude larger. You have to build for peak capacity. If their target response time is 100ms or something then that adds in lots of complexity.
- mv4 8y agoI agree the load will fluctuate - but will mostly follow predictable patterns daily and weekly. However, that's what the cloud's elasticity is for - and AWS makes it easy (and inexpensive) to expand and contract when implemented correctly. Man, I would love an opportunity to optimize something like that!
- MisterPea 8y agoRight?! The cost is way too high for their use case, even considering a large padding to OPs quick maths. Part of my team one month stopped all development and solely focused on reducing AWS costs and we cut our monthly bill by 50% (probably around 4 dev's yearly salary) It's not easy, but optimizing AWS resources is an absolute must.