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> but I'm just going to say that we run a few 8XL and 12Xl RDS instances and we pay ~40% off the sticker price. Genuinely curious, how do you that? We pay a
by jq-r 3y ago
> but I'm just going to say that we run a few 8XL and 12Xl RDS instances and we pay ~40% off the sticker price.
Genuinely curious, how do you that?
We pay a couple of million dollars per year and the biggest spend is RDS. The bulk of those are 8xl and 12xl as you mention and we have a lot of these. We do have savings plans, but those are nowhere near 40%.
- hardolaf 3y agoYeah 40% seems like a pipedream. I was at a Fortune 500 defense firm and we couldn't get any cloud provider to even offer us anything close to that discount if we agreed to move to them for 3-4 years minimum. That org ended up not migrating because it was significantly cheaper to buy land and build datacenters from scratch than to rent in the cloud.
- overstay8930 3y agoThere are basically no discounts in govcloud
- hardolaf 3y agoDefense firms do a lot more than just government work. Also, there are definitely discounts in govcloud when Fortune 500 companies that operate 30+ datacenters start talking to govcloud providers about potentially migrating to their services.
- CubsFan1060 3y agoAt least according to: https://instances.vantage.sh/rds/?selected=db.r6g.16xlarge,db.r5.12xlarge https://instances.vantage.sh/rds/?selected=db.r6g.16xlarge,d... It looks like a reserved instance is 35% off sticker price? Add probably a discount and you'd be around 40% off.