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It is, but I can conceive of large companies paying it because they don't also want to employ, in-house, the people necessary to maintain the physical infrastru
by scott_s 12y ago
It is, but I can conceive of large companies paying it because they don't also want to employ, in-house, the people necessary to maintain the physical infrastructure.
- liveoneggs 12y agoyou also need people to babysit, manage, and build out ec2 instances. They are constantly failing, being retired, getting random poor performance, etcetcetc. The failure rates vs physical hardware are incredibly high (just personal experience but I doubt you'll find many who disagree). Once your systems are up and running you don't need to do much. Remote hands will replace a hard drive for $100, for example.