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Basecamp details $3.2M bill that saw it quit cloud

• hindsightbias 4y ago
  I’d wager his servers were all running at 20% utilization.
• jackhalford 4y ago
  In a pre-cloud world you want cpu utilization. In a post cloud world you cou utilization high. The mindset doesn’t seem to be shifting… I’d bet their cpu utilization is sub 10% > Reserved Instances and committed usage, as part of a Private Pricing Agreement," he wrote. "This is a highly optimized budget." Maybe the commitments are optimized, but definitely not the compute as they are running RoR
• girafffe_i 4y ago
  Could you estimate cost savings with a faster language rewrite? Based on the programming language energy usage benchmark, Java is 32x faster than RoR. Let's say you could you replace 32 instances with Java, that might help with the reserved instance coat as well.
• mlhpdx 4y ago
  No matter what ends up said about the reasons, blaming vendors is a bad sign. AWS pricing is formulaic, and being “shocked” by it is an admission of being asleep at the wheel.