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In addition, usually the main financial effect of going from AWS to on-premises is to replace a lot of your recurring monthly costs with up-front capital costs.
by teraflop 4y ago
In addition, usually the main financial effect of going from AWS to on-premises is to replace a lot of your recurring monthly costs with up-front capital costs.
The article spends a lot of time talking about how much lower their monthly bill is, but it says nothing about how much they spent to buy those 300 servers in the first place.
- sabujp 4y agoby servers i think they meant microservice apps/binaries/vms/containers, etc not physical machines. I also want to know what physical hardware they purchased, where they racked them, how much colocation costs, etc, etc and they go into none of that.
- bombcar 4y agoIf you want recurring monthly costs for capital devices there are companies setup to do that for you. They lease you the equipment. Yay.
- brandon 4y agoIn my experience with modest specifications, you can source servers from tier 1 vendors (Dell, HPE, etc) with 5 years of support for less than a 1 year commitment for the roughly equivalent AWS or GCE instances (without prepayment). The monthly opex to house and power and cool those servers isn't _negligible_, but if you're doing back of napkin math comparing MRCs to Cloud you can just deduct the costs from their bandwidth charges that have been marked up 10,000%