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Of course it's more costly, you need to ensure state between locations so by virtue there's more infra to pay for. It's not just a single instance too, there's
by _joel 4y ago
Of course it's more costly, you need to ensure state between locations so by virtue there's more infra to pay for.
It's not just a single instance too, there's generally a lot more infrastructure (db servers, app servers, logging and monitoring backends, message queues, auth servers... etc)
- ethbr0 4y agoAlso, people who can configure and maintain that infrastructure. It is more complicated, and it does require a different sort of person. (And checkbox-easy is sweeping edge cases and failure modes under the rug)
- aledalgrande 4y agoalso inter region replication costs bandwidth money
- throwbigdata 4y agoLots and lots of money.