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What leads you to believe it's an apples-to-oranges comparison? From OP's example the AWS monthly bill would be close to 10% of the total hardware cost to serve
by rumanator 7y ago
What leads you to believe it's an apples-to-oranges comparison? From OP's example the AWS monthly bill would be close to 10% of the total hardware cost to serve the same volume of requests.
- nine_k 7y agoHow about hardware problems if they happen? Or just rebooting it sometimes to apply kernel patches? Multiple fiber links for a case of bad network weather? DDoS mitigation? This is what you pay for in the datacenter. The request handling itself is much simpler.