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Someone, somewhere, has to actually buy the computers. "Only pay for what you use" isn't magic, whatever fraction actually gets used (across all customers) has
by tbrownaw 4y ago
Someone, somewhere, has to actually buy the computers. "Only pay for what you use" isn't magic, whatever fraction actually gets used (across all customers) has to end up paying for the whole computer.
Taxis are "only pay for what you use", but owning your own car is often cheaper (even if you only use it, what, 1/12 of the day?) and more convenient.
- Aperocky 4y ago> Taxis are "only pay for what you use" Taxis are not scalable, you can't make one human drive 100 taxis. Meanwhile you can add entire new data centers with barely any extra burden on the software teams that manage them.
- kamaal 4y ago>>Someone, somewhere, has to actually buy the computers. Exactly, so as long as it's not you, you should be fine. Let AWS figure out how they wish to do it for you.
- beckingz 4y agoUntil AWS runs out of computers. It's rare, but there are enough strange instance types that it's possible.
- amluto 4y agoThis is all true, except that the markup for a rental can be so high that owning something, even for fairly low utilization, can be less expensive.
- abirch 4y agoI feel that Zipcar would be a fairer comparison to owning your own car. You could compare a taxi to your own chauffeured car. We own our own car out of convenience not cost savings.