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Yes, but your offering doesn't have to be so general as for instance on your hardware there does not have to be any sharing of resources with non-trusted partie
by kaliszad 2y ago
Yes, but your offering doesn't have to be so general as for instance on your hardware there does not have to be any sharing of resources with non-trusted parties. You also don't need a lot of the accounting and billing stuff internally. And in general, if you are willing to drop a nine or two on availability/ reliability, the costs fall much further down.
Obviously, you have to do your own estimates and calculations but beating AWS on price in certain areas isn't really hard even if you just use a different hoster/ cloud.
Source: Ran a SaaS business with a fraction of the cost that I normally hear from people.
- vidarh 2y agoWe used to price out an AWS transition every year at an old job. As well as managed hosting providers. 6-7 years in Hetzner reached parity with our colo setup and we started using them (our colos were near London, with London real estate prices). AWS however never got within a factor of 2. Which is fine for many businesses where a 2x on hosting does little to your margins, or you e.g. serve customers whose infra is in AWS, but for my employer at the time, moving to AWS would have meant bankruptcy.