A place I worked built out a SQL server which had a TCO of a million dollars a year. 1 Machine. Don't ask me how it all adds up; the manager over it just quot

A place I worked built out a SQL server which had a TCO of a million dollars a year. 1 Machine. Don't ask me how it all adds up; the manager over it just quoted me that at a work social one time. I don't know how much it cost a customer I had to build over a couple decades, but their eCommerce website had an operational run rate of at least 3 million a month just in cloud costs (not including all the other externalities). All this to say that I can see how it might add up.