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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
by 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.