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EC2 costs almost twice as much per core as my company’s in house datacenters, and that’s before bandwidth.
by closeparen 7y ago
EC2 costs almost twice as much per core as my company’s in house datacenters, and that’s before bandwidth.
- adrianN 7y agoBut can you just turn your datacenter off and not pay for it when you don't use it? Can you double the number of cores in your datacenter by running a script and waiting five minutes? There is little point in using EC2 if you never want to do either, I agree. But it seems like many people do and are willing to pay more per core to do so.
- closeparen 7y agoThe idea of a hybrid cloud solution is to pay EC2 rates for only the unpredictable portion of your workload. It is in fact a little cheaper to keep 2x spare capacity on hand vs. run the 1x workload on AWS all the time.