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AWS doesn't get magically expensive just because you put your website there. You don't get to an overcomplicated AWS madness without having a few engineers alr
by whstl 1y ago
AWS doesn't get magically expensive just because you put your website there.
You don't get to an overcomplicated AWS madness without having a few engineers already pushing complexity.
And an overcomplicated setup also means it needs maintenance. There are no personnel savings there.
- hedora 1y agoFor one VM, EBS with backups gives you business continuity. You could get manual failover with a single writer replicated managed Postgres setup and a warm VM. That’s on the order of a thousand a month for a medium workload. It’s probably a 10x markup vs buying the servers, but it doesn’t matter if it saves an employee.
- whstl 1y agoIt doesn’t save employees. Over-complicated infrastructure doesn’t magically appear out of nowhere. Someone has to setup and maintain. It’s expensive.