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by qz2 2012 days ago
Yeah migrating to AWS is not cheaper. It never is. It’s a complete fucking lie to be honest.

I’m actually dealing with an issue where one RDS instance in AWS costs more over three years than the entire infrastructure and software investment did on the on-prem.
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JamesBarney 2012 days ago
When they talk about being cheaper, they're talking about the salary of an infrastructure team, not the cost of the infrastructure itself.
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qz2 2012 days ago
I’m including that. We still need the same DBA and now we have numerous AWS cert people. More cost and not necessarily more clue I have found.
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JamesBarney 2009 days ago
Pre-cloud I remember having 10 full time infrastructure guys to support 100 devs by building servers, installing software, setting up backups, buying licenses, setting up the network, creating credentials, patching software, etc...

Most of the projects I work on now have 1-2 IT people supporting 100 devs.

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