> I mean, you're connecting to your primary database potentially on another continent?

Atlas AWS was actually setup in Ireland. The data transfer costs were coming from extracting data for ML modelling. We don't get charged for extracting data with the new contract.

> experts in a domain that maybe is out of your depth

We're in the bot detection space so we need to be able to run our own infra in order to inspect connections for patterns of abuse. We've built up a fair amount of knowledge because of this and we're lucky enough to have a guy in our team who just understands everything related to computers. He's also pretty good at disseminating information.

Thanks for reading!