[mulmen]

Thanks for this insight. It’s a perspective I don’t have. Did you build the site? Is it performing as expected?

I know “nobody got fired for choosing AWS” but the real value seems to be in burst loads. If you have predictable, stable workloads I can see on prem or hybrid making more sense.

[sokoloff]

So long as stable also means "unchanging" (in the sense of no new machines are being deployed). Our biggest win from AWS was never having to think about DDoS; our second biggest win was never having to wait for our Ops team (who was very good overall) to have the discussions about how to deploy new hardware, new storage, etc.

I get annoyed when a new EC2 instance takes 2 minutes to launch now. That time used to be not productive to measure in hours.

[mulmen]

Yes the benefit of the cloud is the ability to change deployed capacity quickly.