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by BryanRamirez 1533 days ago
I agree, with the caveat that at scale it's cheaper to do it well yourself. If that weren't true, then Amazon would not be making money on EC2.

If you don't have sysadmins and network admins with the right experience, you can easily find yourself in a bad spot with single points of failure, servers that can't be easily replaced, oversubscribed PDUs, misconfigured switches/routers... and any number of other problems that aren't occurring to me right now.
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vidarh 1532 days ago
If you don't have sysadmins with the right experience, there is a vast number of companies that can do this for you on a fractional basis on retainer. I was one of them.

The crossover point where cloud is more expensive is really low even if you have zero in-house experience. Exactly where it is depends on your amount of egress, as that is where AWS in particular really takes advantage of you.

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dhzhzjsbevs 1533 days ago
This is very true. You also probably need the scale having multiple install locations makes sense.

We went dedicated early and while it didn't make sense at the time we now run at way lower cost than the competition could dream of.

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