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> Running Lambda, I get a million calls per month for free. Then it's 20 cents per million calls. And you are overpaying by a significant chunk. My raspberry

> Running Lambda, I get a million calls per month for free. Then it's 20 cents per million calls. And you are overpaying by a significant chunk. My raspberry pi - the old cheap one - can handle 10 million requests a day without breaking a sweat. If I push it, I can get up around 90 million requests a day without too much effort (it's only about 1 request/ms) I really don't think most devs understand how fucking cheap hardware that's comparable to these services is. Now - you might be using a host of other valuable features that your cloud provider gives you (things like edge servers near your customers, or truly significant outbound network traffic flows, or a very robust multi-region setup, or disk backing of some sort, etc). But generally speaking - you ARE overpaying for cpu cycles in the cloud. It's not really up for debate.

Mo3 4y ago
Of course you are paying more for AWS than for a damn raspberry pi.
- horsawlarway 4y ago
  You say this like it's obvious that AWS is better. There are certainly cases where AWS can be better (ease of edge networks and multi-region availability come to mind) But outside of a very small set of cases (most of which are when companies are victims of their own success - which is actually a wonderful problem to have) what's the compelling reason to actually use AWS if "Of course I am paying more" for it? In my opinion, if you can still run your db on a single machine - you don't fucking need the cloud yet. That covers a pretty large chunk of businesses. Most of the "cloud" is convincing business that could self-host their entire stack on a raspberry pi in a basement that they should be spending thousands on cloud compute costs a year. Fuck - the most damning evidence is simply how much fucking money these companies are making from upselling you cpu cycles that they're getting mostly for free. For the 4th quarter of 2021, amazon reported a profit of 5.2 billion on ~18 billion in revenue from AWS.
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Mo3 4y ago

Of course you are paying more for AWS than for a damn raspberry pi.

horsawlarway 4y ago
You say this like it's obvious that AWS is better. There are certainly cases where AWS can be better (ease of edge networks and multi-region availability come to mind) But outside of a very small set of cases (most of which are when companies are victims of their own success - which is actually a wonderful problem to have) what's the compelling reason to actually use AWS if "Of course I am paying more" for it? In my opinion, if you can still run your db on a single machine - you don't fucking need the cloud yet. That covers a pretty large chunk of businesses. Most of the "cloud" is convincing business that could self-host their entire stack on a raspberry pi in a basement that they should be spending thousands on cloud compute costs a year. Fuck - the most damning evidence is simply how much fucking money these companies are making from upselling you cpu cycles that they're getting mostly for free. For the 4th quarter of 2021, amazon reported a profit of 5.2 billion on ~18 billion in revenue from AWS.
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