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by FatalBaboon 3353 days ago
Oh I did not mean AWS would suddently rise their pricing, just that servers may scale, but so does the cost of the service, and inflexion points may bite you.

Then, of course: "You're using the service wrong, silly, all you have to do is sign up for a few years to a bunch of our services".

proceeds...

Don't be fooled, AWS and the likes are very expensive, not as much as Heroku, but definitely more than OVH for example.

I am currently migrating a client's (valuable) production from AWS to OVH to divide their infrastructure cost by 3. Thankfully it did not depend on any non-OSS parts (RDS becomes a Postgres etc).

The question becomes: how far can you go with serverless until you have to move out, and then how much money was really saved once you paid the price of un-aws-ing?

The author of the article clearly spent quite a lot of human ressources and money to get his serverless setup running (hosted ES, Kibana, etc gets expensive fast).

In the end, I find it hard to believe that this is a real time saver, let alone a money saver, in fine.

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I think the point for many is not a net money saved but a reshaping of the cost curve. I am ok spending a lot farther down the road to transfer everything off of AWS if I can spend almost nothing now. Because as a small business or startup, I don't have money now. But if I grow to the point that AWS becomes too expensive I can assume that I will have more money at that time so the cost of switching will hopefully not be too painful.