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While I don’t doubt your personal experience, I’ve spent time at a cloud-native company and boy, do they know how to spend money. Just because you’ve bought int
by sgarland 3y ago
While I don’t doubt your personal experience, I’ve spent time at a cloud-native company and boy, do they know how to spend money. Just because you’ve bought into every .aaS the cloud has doesn’t mean you’ll save money.
RDS, for example, is stupidly expensive. I maintain that it’s not that hard to use Xtrabackup or any of the other free and open tooling to run regular backups for RDBMS. It’s also not that hard to set up HA. If those things seem hard, your Aurora Serverless bill is going to be even harder to swallow when it hits.
- ckdarby 3y agoSounds like a great business opportunity for you that will make millions and millions.
- sgarland 3y agoTouché. I have no desire to start an IaaS company. However, if I ever launch a product, it will be running on my own hardware (to be clear, I own the hardware now; this isn’t a future CAPEX) until there is a clear financial incentive to not do so.
- vidarh 3y agoThe challenge is selling it. I did devops contracting for years, and I gave my customers a standing offer: If they were not sure they'd save money, I'd guarantee they'd save money, including on my ongoing fees, if they moved to managed hosting instead of cloud, and I'd charge them a percentage of their savings over the first few months only to do the transition. Even in the face of that, and extensive spreadsheets, it was always a big challenge to convince people to try even with smaller parts of their services. AWS is a known entity. It's not a career risk. If something goes wrong, they have someone to blame. Of the ones that did take me up, one cut their costs (including the devops) by 90%. More typically 50%-70%. And you're making that effort to make far narrower margins.