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Holy cow, that's nuts. A pair of perfectly webservers (m5.xlarge) comes in at ~€250/m. And cheaper if you get reserved instances. ~€2.2k/m for a pair of instanc

• luckylion 8y ago
  It is, especially when they are running a lot of base load, so it's not about firing up 20 nodes for an hour and then idling along on one node for the rest of the week. "We'd rather not manage the database ourselves" was the answer from the lead dev, and I do understand that: it's not the developers' job to manage servers. In this company, management has removed themselves from anything technical and the devs don't like managing servers, so they say "let's use AWS, we'll write some code once to create our environment and Amazon takes care of the rest" - and by this point they are committed, with months having been spent on getting things running on AWS, changing the code where necessary etc, so reversing it would be a hard thing to sell to investors and the team.
• eastern 8y ago
  If you can use servers _without_disks_ and without bandwidth, then yeah that's the price. Add some EBS, specially provisioned IOPS. Not even getting into the fact that an m5.xlarge has roughly as much muscle as an old laptop.
  • user5994461 8y ago
    Don't use PIOPS, it's a scam. Get normal disks of a larger size, it comes with 3 IOPS per GB.
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