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Our company is not many magnitudes larger than any company and it is not remotely cost competitive for us to run any of our stack on AWS (heavy data ingest (hun
by nickstinemates 5y ago
Our company is not many magnitudes larger than any company and it is not remotely cost competitive for us to run any of our stack on AWS (heavy data ingest (hundreds of billions of inserts a day,) many disks/'big data' backend, hundreds of customers accessing the data. Even 1 time deals to get us into the door are not cost competitive, let alone long tail economics. Cloud for fast storage and high bandwidth usecases is extremely expensive.