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The first post was a back of the envelope estimation, excluding externalities on both sides, to show why someone would want to keep all that "old, obsolete hard
by Sanddancer 11y ago
The first post was a back of the envelope estimation, excluding externalities on both sides, to show why someone would want to keep all that "old, obsolete hardware". For Amazon, I didn't put in the costs of pushing data to amazon in terms of API calls used, bandwidth, etc. Additionally, I posted the cost estimate using their slowest storage system with the least amount of flexibility. The cloud doesn't always save you time and money.
- ObviousScience 11y agoI'm just saying that you omitted a major component, as no one would argue that the trade-off in engineering time isn't one of the main cost-benefit components of considering AWS (as we can see here, where it weighed in at a substantial fraction of your estimate). It's like forgetting to count the price of hardware, and only talking about the relevant cost of electricity. Ed: Accidentally a negative.