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> depending on your size of course, it could easily be cheaper to have a dedicated "build engineer" maintaining a build farm. This is how the majority of people
by illumin8 7y ago
> depending on your size of course, it could easily be cheaper to have a dedicated "build engineer" maintaining a build farm. This is how the majority of people do it. (I work in the video games industry, it's _MUCH_ cheaper to do it this way for us)
Cheaper to have a dedicated build engineer than using Codebuild? I just looked at my bill for August, my startup has $50K/mo. AWS spend across 4 regions in US/EU/Asia. We use Codebuild to build and deploy all of our infra from GitHub, including a ton of EC2 for our dedicated apps.
Guess how much my bill for Codebuild was in August? 17 cents!
$0.17 CodeBuild
$0.06 Asia Pacific (Singapore)
$0.07 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
$0.02 EU (Frankfurt)
$0.00 EU (Ireland)
$0.02 US West (Oregon)
I'd like to see you hire a build engineer for $0.17. AWS services are dirt cheap because they let you automate all of the stuff that would require dedicated engineers for, while you can focus on your business, or what differentiates you.