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OTOH, the absolute numbers matter. If it's $1,000K/yr for AWS, that's $100K/yr for Oracle. That could be a deciding factor - $900M difference OTOH, if you ar

OTOH, the absolute numbers matter. If it's $1,000K/yr for AWS, that's $100K/yr for Oracle. That could be a deciding factor - $900M difference OTOH, if you are getting 90% off the list on both, you're talking $100M vs $10M. That's enough where features, SLA, QoS, matters more ($90M).

hinkley 7y ago
Not sure I agree with your examples but I think I get your gist. Saving a little might not be worth the labor costs and risk differences between two solutions. Paying a bit more to contract out a class of problem could be the thing to do. Though probably not in Zoom's particular case. If this were Patagonia, or Home Depot, sure. Pay someone else's IT nerds to deal with the problem. But Zoom is IT through and through. They better understand the low level details of how their stuff works, or when they get into trouble they won't even see it coming, and we will wonder very loudly why not.