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> For the cost of using EC2 you could hire an extra person to help grow your company. You _will_ be hiring an extra person to manage these machines. That's the
by tills13 7y ago
> For the cost of using EC2 you could hire an extra person to help grow your company.
You _will_ be hiring an extra person to manage these machines. That's the beauty of The Cloud (tm). Need more compute? You got it. Provisioned too much? Get rid of it. If you're a startup, you don't have time nor money to be managing your own infra.
Not to mention the ability to deploy to _any_ region within minutes. Now you're talking $8,800 / region + someone to maintain other regions.
> ingress/egress rates
unless you're also using S3 or CloudFront, this doesn't really mean anything. Put a free CDN in-front of S3 or your instances if you're worried about load or cost of IO.
> You also get the bonus of being out of the watchful eye of Amazon's profitability team looking to see if they can copy what you're doing
Ok now you're reaching.
- shiftpgdn 7y agoHow much management does a bare metal box need? Nothing more than what an ec2 instance would need. There are colocation providers all over the world. Psychz.net is a great example. My assumption is a single box per region. There is no redundancy in your ec2 systems. You should google the Amazon profitability team if you don't believe me.
- solidasparagus 7y agoI can't find anything related to AWS and "profitability team" on Google. Can you share some info/links?
- shiftpgdn 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19734261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19734261 Tangentially related: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazon-google-we-will-never-be-in-competition-with-you/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazo... https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-literally-stole-my-product-idea-and-took-over-my-listing/323388 https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-literally-s... https://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/ https://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/ https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/9/19/20874818/amazon-allbirds-shoe-clone-copy-sneaker-206-collective-private-label https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/9/19/20874818/amazon-allb...
- dclusin 7y agoOnce you get beyond a few instances you'll need a fulltime person to manage your cloud assets anyway. VPC & associated networking + managing different services is not a trivial task. You'll still have an ops team. Whether it's old school sys admins or devops coders is down to your choice of where you run your system.