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> And then you have to factor in things like the cost of downtime (on both sides of the equation, especially if you use us-east-1) This is an important factor
by amluto 3y ago
> And then you have to factor in things like the cost of downtime (on both sides of the equation, especially if you use us-east-1)
This is an important factor to remember when evaluating could costs. If you want to survive a cloud outage, you need a multi-AZ or multi-region deployment, and that costs developer hours. And you need to deal with the potentially catastrophic cost of inter-AZ or inter-region traffic, which can be catastrophic and/or cost more developer hours to mitigate.
- mschuster91 3y ago> If you want to survive a cloud outage, you need a multi-AZ or multi-region deployment, and that costs developer hours. RDS databases are one click to set up in multi-AZ, and if your stack is Kubernetes based or at least EC2 autoscale capable it isn't much more work to make it multi-AZ as well. Multi-Region deployments however, these are indeed expensive and nasty to set up.