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I agree that AWS has economies of scale that makes it hard to build a better/cheaper S3, but one way you can get around this problem is by building to lesser re
by kmod 7y ago
I agree that AWS has economies of scale that makes it hard to build a better/cheaper S3, but one way you can get around this problem is by building to lesser requirements. S3 has to work for all use cases, but if you know you need less of something costly (say, less IOPs) you can build a system that's cheaper than S3 even if the individual components are more expensive than S3 is paying.
- notyourday 7y agoThis is actually not correct. Because of AWS scale it cannot be the cheapest. Amazon cannot use odd lots or small lots, which means that it has very few possible suppliers and those suppliers will never be the cheapest. Same goes for the network infrastructure. While it is possible buy 100Gbit/sec at a throw away price to because some sales person needs to make his numbers and neither he nor his director of sales thinks Kmod Hosting would be able to fill the pipe it is buying, Amazon would need 900Gbit/sec for their exit and no one at the vendor is going to blink at making Amazon pay higher price than Kmod Hosting.
- late2part 7y agoyou are wrong that AWS pays more than small vendors.
- jjeaff 7y agoThat's not what they said. They pay more than small vendors, sometimes. If you are able to take advantage of sales and clearance deals here and there, you are very likely to get a lower price than even the biggest buyers.
- dannyw 7y ago1 month of sales hunting has got me a PC rig for literally 2/3rd of the cost of buying without waiting. And this was an optimised build in the first place.