Yes. Pinterest is big but it's not Amazon, Google or Facebook big. With things like reserved instance pricing, and not having to spend as much money on a physic

Yes. Pinterest is big but it's not Amazon, Google or Facebook big. With things like reserved instance pricing, and not having to spend as much money on a physical ops team that can manage real hardware, it leaves room to optimize software and cloud architecture. without knowing the specifics of their workload I would bet that it's probably a draw at their scale. they may be big enough to start considering this sort of transition... but, it also takes a significant amount of time, energy, people and energy to make that transition, so they probably won't do it until it's a no brainer. Curious if the numbers in the article are their entire db workload, 20-30k qps. If so they have a while to go before they are ready to graduate from the cloud in my opinion. (having no idea of the real meaty specifics, but imagining as it is similar in function to many that I have worked on).