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> Well, they don't need to spend money to schedule my Lambda, but they did already spend a bunch of money building out the datacenter so they can pick up my 100
by simplotek 4y ago
> Well, they don't need to spend money to schedule my Lambda, but they did already spend a bunch of money building out the datacenter so they can pick up my 100th of a nickel when they do schedule it.
A projected revenue drop is not the same as a loss though. You already bought that computer.
Less so if it's your own company who was using their stuff.
Worst case scenario: they have stuff idling and more headroom to accommodate demand.
Heck, why waste more money building yet another data center if the ones already in place have already plenty of cycles rand bandwidth to spare?
It's all an accounting trick. You don't waste more power. You don't have to but more hardware. Turning off your lambda saves nothing.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoYou're right that it's probably not that a big deal for Amazon since it's all mainly financed by their own cash flow, but in general it can be a problem if there is debt (that you took out to build the datacenters) to service. Also, those servers are depreciating (in the literal sense of becoming less valuable over time, not in the accounting sense of spreading their cost out over several fiscal years for tax purposes) while still not making them any money, so the "lifetime earnings" of their existing silicon will be less than they would otherwise have been without a slowdown. I'm not sure what the "accounting trick" is though, except in the sense that anything involving money or finance is an accounting trick. Can you elaborate?