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by rthnbgrredf
411 days ago
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18 PB is not a trivial amount of storage. I think what most people always underestimate is how much engineering effort it takes in the background to keep such big infrastructure up and running reliably. I would like to have a detailed total cost of ownership calculation. Of course, renting hardware - let's say in Hetzner or some other cheap provider - is always cheaper than AWS or any other major cloud provider in simple 1:1 pricing comparison. So that is nothing new. But the pure CPU/RAM/SSD costs is just a fraction of what it really costs to run such infrastructure. |
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Times something for redundancy / backup.
The hardware investment is back within a year. This is about what I would say many aws services cost. After a year, you’re just giving away your margin to Amazon.
The original story for EC2 was ephemeral, short lived/on-demand compute. This was during the time when map-reduce was all the hype.