[talas9]

Yet another shining example of throwing money and time away to work within AWS constraints when bare metal and openstack (1) would have solved it cheaper (2) and arguably faster.

1 (if you insist on cloud provisioning instances, even though it makes little sense if the resources are as strictly dedicated as they are in this case)

2 (VASTLY, over time -- these guys are pissing money away at AWS and I hope their investors know it)

[Xorlev]

We understand that AWS comes at a premium, however we find the opportunity cost of losing the agility we have on AWS at this stage of our organization more expensive than the delta in cost between moving on to our own hardware and AWS.

Our organization is acutely aware of our costs and still strives to minimize them. Our move to Cassandra saved 79% over continuing to run our reserved SSD nodes & backup replica.

[bfrog]

AWS in general is a waste of time and money for most standard web hosting requirements I think