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They are perfect world actual hours that don't include any unexpected downtime, or any ancillary costs outside of racking.
by Rantenki 6y ago
They are perfect world actual hours that don't include any unexpected downtime, or any ancillary costs outside of racking.
- vonmoltke 6y ago> They are perfect world actual hours that don't include any unexpected downtime It isn't clear from this particular post, but considering Patrick refers to "overprovisioning" and having a "hot spare" I get the impression that they have designed their DC setup to minimize unexpected downtime. Sure, it can still happen, but with proper up-front planning what you call "perfect world" can become typical. > or any ancillary costs outside of racking As I see it from Patrick's post and my own colo experience, there are three groups of costs for colo that are baked in to the cost of AWS compute and storage: capital cost of hardware (Patrick has a specific line item for this); facility cost; and labor for maintaining the hardware (which is the cost under discussion. What do you think is significant, missing, and unique to colo?