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Can you clarify what you mean by "if you have the scale to move out of S3"? Why does it take scale to move out of S3? And I thought S3 was cheap, so how would
by charlieflowers 7y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "if you have the scale to move out of S3"?
Why does it take scale to move out of S3? And I thought S3 was cheap, so how would moving out save money?
- bargle0 7y agoAmazon has to make a profit on selling services. You don’t have to make a profit providing services internally. There are certain inelasticities that both of you have to pay for: power, real estate, internet, etc. If you’re big enough, you can do it cheaper than Amazon.
- cjalmeida 7y agoS3 is flexible and scalable, but it is not cheap. I'd be hard pressed to run the numbers now, but at some point it's cheaper to just do storage yourself. But to be fair, you'll go on-premise due to the computing or bandwidth costs first. And you'll likely move data to the same datacenter to avoid expensive transfer costs. I've also had to work in places where you simply could not put your data in the cloud due to regulatory reasons.
- dx034 7y agoS3 isn't cheap if used with other services. Either you use AWS for everything or you pay with bandwidth. It's cheap to get your data in, using it or getting it out isn't cheap at all.