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My money is on them getting neither lower AWS costs nor lower dev costs. They're just paying out both ends because "cloud" is a thought-terminating cliché at th
by throwup238 3y ago
My money is on them getting neither lower AWS costs nor lower dev costs. They're just paying out both ends because "cloud" is a thought-terminating cliché at this point.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoYeah, that's where my "Erk" came from. But I don't know what their product looks like under the hood so can't really comment further, just that "even at the cost of functionality" got my antennae tingling. Ditto the bit where "As a last resort, we write our own code". That feels like a lot of pain and YAML trying to cobble together other people's expensive code.
- Kinrany 3y ago"AWS is expensive" is a thought-terminating cliche as well.
- throwup238 3y agoAMZN ain't making its profit selling books and toothbrushes. It's all the yummy egress and all the other markups you're paying for.
- cowthulhu 3y agoWho are all these people egressing gb/mo/customer? Does everyone except me work at Netflix?
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoI agree it's a weird thing to obsess over. I have never seen egress mentioned, let alone approach the leaderboard in terms of costs.
- rendaw 3y agoI'm not sure I believe it, but they could reasonably make profit on economies of scale that individual organizations wouldn't get managing their own hardware - merged hardware utilization, sharing engineering efforts, standard hardware procurement, etc.