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by maccard
1529 days ago
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> Every year we priced out what a cost to EC2 would cost us, and every year it was about 3x the cost of running our own > we tied Hetzner servers into our private cloud layer, and migrated containers and shut down servers as it fit Building your own services on top of AWS is always going to come out more expensive. EC2 + EBS volumes alone are going to be more expensive than going with hetzner (particularly if you're not looking at reserved instances, and not utilising spot for burst). You mentioned that you are building your own private cloud layer and migrated containers; the cost of building that out in the first place is likely enormous compared to building and running on top of fargate. |
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At the time we didn't have a choice, as nothing like Fargate existed, but today it's also easier to do setups like the one we did. It mostly involved rsyncing base images over, rsync and a super simple storage service for backups, a LDAP based directory service, and and a thin layer over vzctl (first) and docker when that became an option, coupled with a VPN setup to tie our locations together, and a reverse proxy setup that did dynamic lookups in our private DNS fed from LDAP.
It is hard to do as a multitenant public service, it's trivially easy to do as an internal tool that needs to support only exactly what you need.
I've built out setups like this for a number of clients since, and it's typically 1-3 months of work to automate pretty much everything depending on complexity, and so it pays for itself quickly from a very low scale.
The first company I did this at wouldn't have been profitable at all if we'd relied on AWS