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I work in a large company. The problem is not the first time setup. The problem is essentially what “uptime” you can provide. Once you setup an infrastructure
by mritun 6y ago
I work in a large company.
The problem is not the first time setup. The problem is essentially what “uptime” you can provide. Once you setup an infrastructure many people come to depend on it.
Lets say two teams lose half a day when that CI/CD mac mini goes down then paying for a cloud provider to manage many instances and “sharing them ondemand” makes a lot of monetary sense.
Of course, paying a cloud provider may or may not make sense for hobbyists. Personally, I pay for cloud storage - thats super hard to get right.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoFor what Amazon is asking, one could have both an extra hot _and_ an extra cold standby locally, so it still doesn't make economic sense for a large company.
- inopinatus 6y agoIn a very substantial number of enterprises; the cost of procuring, validating, installing, powering, cooling, fire-rating, commissioning, maintaining, writing up, handing over, revising, reporting, auditing, approving, and very occasionally actually executing those hot<>cold standby procedures, exceeds the entire purchase cost of the cold standby unit.
- Aeolun 6y agoHell, the company will spend more money on agonizing over the question of whether we should buy a $1500 Mac in the first place. Besides, if your cloud spend is already a fuckton, $24 per day extra is not going to make you blink.
- _alex_ 6y agofor real. I used to work at a large company in highly regulated industry with lots of scrutiny on our books. The number of meetings and program proposals it would take just to get finance to agree to the capex of standing up a dozen mac minis would easily dwarf the hardware cost. That's before you get to the actual work. From my experience, saying "we're just going to increase our EC2 spend" is a no-brainer
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