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by saltminer 770 days ago
I remember seeing a quote for 500/500 metro E from Comcast several years ago. $12k to install, $1.2k/mo. And that only involved laying a few miles of fiber, no redundancy. Dedicated lines are no joke. If you're AWS or GCP, you can be your own ISP and mitigate this to some extent, but that's just the physical connection they save on.

You can always save by going on-prem, assuming you have no uptime requirements. But the moment you sign an SLA, those savings go out the window.