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It also depends on how computationally intensive your application is, AWS premium can be higher than labor cost if you need large scale data crunching.
by riku_iki 6y ago
It also depends on how computationally intensive your application is, AWS premium can be higher than labor cost if you need large scale data crunching.
- Rantenki 6y agoThat's definitely true. It still makes sense to run your own AI/ML servers on-prem if you're saturating some $20k/each GPU boxes, for example. But ... most web applications are still IO bound, and labour is surprisingly expensive.
- heipei 6y agoOr if you need to egress a lot of data to the Internet. Or send a lot of data between different AZs. Or between Regions. Or anywhere really. Plus now you have to get a PhD in AWS Billing first: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1155838435065655296/photo/1 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1155838435065655296/pho... and https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1172239124251709449/photo/1 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1172239124251709449/pho...