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AWS hasn't been passing on the savings per core for CPUs for years. At some point the cost of a machine with a lot of cores becomes so cheap compared to what AW

AWS hasn't been passing on the savings per core for CPUs for years. At some point the cost of a machine with a lot of cores becomes so cheap compared to what AWS charges that co-hosting/self hosting becomes really viable again even taking into account the cost of maintenance and supporting services. I don't think at any point AWS has ever outperformed native hardware, because its always used the low clockspeed CPUs. Its that you can get a cloud in a box for not a lot of cost now that is making this shift become more and more viable. I keep thinking that the Hetzner's of the world should be forcing AWS price adjustment but its not happened yet.

themoonisachees 3y ago
In my experience the percieved value of AWS is management that thinks they can get away with fewer sysadmins because of the managed spirit of AWS. In a way, this is true, because what eventually happens is that the company ends up employing no or very few sysadmins, and expects developers to pick up the slack by branding sysadmin work as "devops". If you manage to get away with it, AWS savings are in workforce costs. But i don't think every company _can_ get away with it, and by the time you realize you'd be better off on-prem, you will have already churned all your devs into AWS experts and fired all your sysadmins. Amazon knows this and expects it, that's why they sell training courses that you must pay for as an employer.