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not sure i buy the “$2M/mo on cloud” number. did they actually run it or just plug public on-demand pricing into a spreadsheet? nobody pays sticker price at tha

• mihaivinaga 11mo ago
  That's a fair point, the scale discounts certainly matter. That said: We did in fact run our prototype on AWS, and early on they flagged our account because our VMs were under heavy CPU load (we were told we'd need to cut below ~50 % or risk suspension). When you switch to dedicated hardware, you're no longer paying for "noisy neighbours" or hypervisor over-provisioning, so the effective per-unit cost often cleaner fully justifies the shift.