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> Cost Reduction – We reduced our database costs by over 60% on top of the heavily discounted rate we negotiated based on our scale. Customers regularly report
by e12e 7y ago
> Cost Reduction – We reduced our database costs by over 60% on top of the heavily discounted rate we negotiated based on our scale. Customers regularly report cost savings of 90% by switching from Oracle to AWS.
So Amazon saves 60%, when switching to paying "cost" for Amazon services - and they still claim customers paying cost+markup save 90%?
I'm sure there's probably savings - but that math sounds optimistic.
Or more likely they're apple to oranges - porting a service that could run on a single postgres node from oracle to anything will save you maybe 10k USD a year in licensing for which you see a pretty slim return.
- kondro 7y agoOracle Enterprise (RRP) is $47,500 per unit. Software updates are $10,500 per unit per year. An Intel core is 0.5 units. Running Oracle on single, 4 core CPU (or VM, because you can't partially license cores and you'd be lucky to find a 4 core server CPU) is $40,000 per year in licensing alone (amortised over 5 years)… for a single machine. Want an active/passive replication set… double that cost.
- fullstop 7y agoThat's why we switched years ago. Going from single CPU to multiple ballooned the costs so much that it was economically viable to do the work to port everything to Postgres.
- nostrebored 7y agoIt's not "cost". Internal customers are billed the same amount as external customers.
- jve 7y agoAnother thing - They reduced administrative overhead 70% and cost 60%. If I was a parser, I could say that the result is more expensive. However I think they just didn't account salary savings. That is, their admins can do other stuff now.