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"Let's say a customer is spending $1M/year on Redshift. That nets AWS about6 $500-700k in gross profits..." Can AWS seriously buy and operate infrastructure fo
by dusted 5y ago
"Let's say a customer is spending $1M/year on Redshift. That nets AWS about6 $500-700k in gross profits..."
Can AWS seriously buy and operate infrastructure for half the price than anyone else ?
I can't imagine that being cheaper than running the datacenter yourself.
- mvanbaak 5y agoYes. They simply call city/state/country X, and tell them: Yo, we are going to build a datacenter farm here for AWS. You are not going to tax us, provide half the funds, and we will try to source the workforce in your region mkay? And that is how their datacenter is almost gratis, and ours costs millions. Once you are at the AWS scale, things are differen.