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I think most customers' biggest spend is on EC2, which is compute. Certainly this has been my experience.
by staticassertion 7y ago
I think most customers' biggest spend is on EC2, which is compute. Certainly this has been my experience.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoThis depends entirely on what your instances are doing. For ardour.org (AWS), we're running a simple PHP/Drupal/Discourse/Mantis web service. Since it's up 24/7 (it's a WEB SERVER!), we have a reserved instance which saves a fair amount on the CPU/compute cost. But even without this saving, data transfer in/out (downloads - customers getting our software; uploads: nightly builds) vastly outweigh the CPU/compute/instance charges. We picked AWS mostly because they are close to the backbone and because you really get something close to bare metal access. At the time this decision was made, similar access from various other providers was either more expensive or non-existent.
- Aeolun 7y agoOur EC2 is cheap. Our RDS however...