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I've always wondered why cloud costs keep going up, while computing costs keep going down. You deserve an award for building this, thank you!
by Everhusk 1y ago
I've always wondered why cloud costs keep going up, while computing costs keep going down.
You deserve an award for building this, thank you!
- czhu12 1y agoYeah in our last year at my previous company, we spent over ~$400k on what amounted to about ~512GB of memory across our fleet of 8 instances on a PaaS vendor. We were almost always memory bound, so I don't even know the compute side. Given that the hardware itself now costs less than 8k to purchase outright, just seemed ridiculous. Albeit we did have SOC2, enterprise plan, etc, but it was a painful bill every quarter.
- bbkane 1y agohttps://world.hey.com/dhh/our-cloud-exit-savings-will-now-top-ten-million-over-five-years-c7d9b5bd https://world.hey.com/dhh/our-cloud-exit-savings-will-now-to... - this blog post made the rounds last year; makes a similar case