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Another aspect, not mentioned in the article, is that you can arrange to have machines with hardware resources specifically tailored to your workload. e.g. AWS
by dboreham 4y ago
Another aspect, not mentioned in the article, is that you can arrange to have machines with hardware resources specifically tailored to your workload. e.g. AWS can't get you a box with 20T of NVMe storage. So if you have a workload that needs 20T of fast storage, hosted on AWS the system architecture is different : you're using NAS which has much higher latency so now you're probably using more machines, which is less efficient, and of course much more costly.
- q1w2 4y agoAs an old-school co-founder, honestly, I just enjoy managing the infra. Sometimes there are issues and outages, but I'm offline maybe 3-4 hours per year - no big deal. It's about 1/4th the price (for the equivalent performance).
- partyindiok 4y agoWhile I know what you mean, you can totally get 20TiB+ of NVME local to the machines you get from AWS