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>> They estimate he saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars... tens of thousands of servers he decommissioned Sounds a little far-fetched. Slack, Air
by skeeter2020 4y ago
>> They estimate he saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars... tens of thousands of servers he decommissioned
Sounds a little far-fetched. Slack, Airbnb and Netflix spend about 6M, 17M and 28M on AWS monthly; to SAVE "hundreds of millions" the company would need to be ridiculously large and inefficient.
- Foobar8568 4y agoOr used a mix of oracle/sun/IBM hardwares and the like. I can imagine easily 9 digits yearly budget including licenses.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoGP didn't provide a denominator. Assuming a year, which is typical for such calculations, your example figures become: Slack: 72M, 204M, 336M. Two out of the three are already in "hundreds of millions of dollars", per year. GP could also be talking about savings over expected life time of the servers if they were not decommissioned, which could easily be 5+ years.