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by Xorlev 4502 days ago
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.