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I can set up an S3 bucket, efs, access, and backups, all reliable and geographically distributed in a single working day.

• spicyusername 3y ago
  Yes, indeed. This is exactly the sneaky thing about the cloud. It seems so "simple". Now try doing that for multiple multi-thousand person orgs with competing processes, architectures, product cycles, etc. You'll find very quickly that costs spiral out of control in a very unpredictable and irreversible way. Self-hosting is something a company has much tighter control of the costs for. Most of those costs are known up front as capex purchases and predictable opex expenditures. They tend to seem expensive compared to the PoC S3 demo you just did, but often aren't compared to the actual realized expenses after migrating.
  • nostrebored 3y ago
    … I have owned core product teams in multi thousand person companies and can confidently say that your spiraling costs sound like a lack of planning and product ownership. Platform teams are your friend. Costs being well known for self hosting is just wrong. It completely ignores cost of ownership and tail risk for your infra