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> Nobody seriously uses AWS/GCP/Azure to have a couple VMs or dedicated servers alone. I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of cloud customers t
by bluedino 4y ago
> Nobody seriously uses AWS/GCP/Azure to have a couple VMs or dedicated servers alone.
I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of cloud customers that do a simple lift and shift.
- zimpenfish 4y agoI've worked for at least 3 companies using cloud services that could have hosted what they were doing on a handful of boxes for a fraction of the cost. (The most egregious was a system peaking at maybe 5 hits a second during the month-end busy period living in multiple pods on a GCP Kubernetes cluster.)
- windexh8er 4y agoHosted Kubernetes offerings has to be one of the highest margin products of the big 3. So many clusters spun up doing little to nothing. And the cost... In the org I'm in people spin 1 and 2 worker node clusters all the time. And I appreciate the control plane / worker node model, but it's overkill in so many situations.
- Liberonostrud 4y agoJust switching from Ruby to Crystal - basically the same syntax - will save you at least 3-4 times the money if not 10x in some cases. Not talking about a good Nginx/OpenResty loadbalancing and utilizing Varnish, Redis etc.
- beebmam 4y agoUntil infrastructure fails, for an enormous number of possible reasons. I've seen it happen over and over.
- jgalt212 4y agoIndeed, and it's not just fools doing "lift and shift". I think a lot of shops do simple "lift and shift" to minimize vendor lock-in.
- fatnoah 4y ago> I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of cloud customers that do a simple lift and shift. I've done exactly that at a previous startup. Granted, it was 10 years ago, but going from racked infra to AWS ended up being half the cost for what was effectively twice the infra (we built out full geo-redundancy at the same time).