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I've never managed devops so that is surprising to me. I thought that given the economies of scale, AWS would be cheaper than collocated just because of staffin

• adanto6840 12y ago
  <=1 full-time employee. Our scale isn't huge either, we were running <= 20 decent-sized virtual servers on Linode & AWS previously. We've definitely been very pleasantly surprised, for sure. The ability to add capacity at very low recurring cost is unbeatable. The communities & OSS that exist now also help to go a pretty solid distance these days -- and we've yet to have any kind of notable issues or catastrophes, though we do have aggressive & tested backup/restore plans in place. Fingers do remain crossed slightly more-so than they used to when we didn't own the hardware, though. ;-)
• toomuchtodo 12y ago
  AWS is almost never cheaper than colocation; you're paying a premium to scale to infinity on a dime. /DevOps Engineer who manages both AWS and colo'd infrastructure