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That's a lot of instances! It'd be interesting to run the numbers and get an idea of what their monthly AWS bill looks like.

• clarkni5 15y ago
  By my math, the bill for their app and database servers would be approaching $30,000 per month. That doesn't include storage costs, bandwidth, or any of the other aspects of their infrastructure. That's crazy, if you ask me.
  • simonw 15y ago
    Is that calculation taking reserved instances in to account?
    • rkalla 15y ago
      No, I don't think so. Latchkey did the same calculation, using on-demand prices and came up with $35k[1] 3rd reserved is roughly 48% cheaper than on-demand, so real hosting cost would be around $18,200 for those servers. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3306394 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3306394