Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free

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13 points·rntn··5 comments

Always reassuring to hear that labour for everything here is free.

How many admins can you pay with 2 million dollars per year?

With salaries, overheads, management, etc. about 7. But then you'd have to subtract from your shiny savings number.

Yeah, I don't get these articles (with this one being pretty similar in tone to the 'Hetzner is 4x cheaper than AWS' one I saw on here earlier today).

If all you need is simple compute and bandwidth, and you can spare the resources to admin a server, of course you'll be able to find colocated, dedicated-server or even VPS solutions that fit your requirements and are way cheaper than AWS/Azure/GCS/etc.

The whole selling point of 'cloud' is that you can scale infinitely at a moment's notice and have a whole array of batteries-included services at your disposal. Don't need that? Don't do it, even if it's fashionable...

It's a worthwhile reality check for business decision makers, I think.

I've seen products developed with such small teams, there's no way you'd ever be able to be that nimble on-prem.

I've also seen cloud spend and governance spin wildly out of control, because teams knew they had to get to the cloud, but weren't sure why.

Similarly - there's value in the articles like "Actually, monoliths are fine".

Adopt the practices which fit your business requirements the best.

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