Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments?
Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.
Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.
I think in practice the system administrators are still in the company now as AWS engineers, they still keep all that platform stuff running and your paying AWS for their engineers too as well as electricity. It has the advantage of being very quick to spin up another box, but also machines these days can come with 288 cores, its not a big stretch to maintain sufficient surplass and the tools to allow teams to self service.
Things are in a different place to when AWS first released, AWS ought to be charging a lot less for the compute, memory and storage, their business is wildly profitable at current rates because per core machines got cheaper.
A broader thing here is -- and you may also notice this trend in software -- employees are incentivized towards complex solutions, while business owners are incentivized towards simple solutions.
(Shiny object syndrome sold separately ;)
Depends. APIs must take into account many more cases than our own specific use case, and I find we are often spending a lot of time going through unnecessary (for us) hoops. And that's leaving aside possible API changes.
"We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%. Here’s the Catch."
https://medium.com/lets-code-future/we-moved-from-aws-to-het...
ChatGPT tells me "no theory, no fluff" all the time :D
""" No warning. No traffic spike. Just… more money gone.
That’s when I finally looked at Hetzner.
I’ve seen too many backend systems fail for the same reasons — and too many teams learn the hard way.
So I turned those incidents into a practical field manual: real failures, root causes, fixes, and prevention systems.
No theory. No fluff. Just production. """
It's clearly slop, they immediately use effectively the same one again:
""" That last line isn’t a joke. There were charges I genuinely couldn’t explain. Elastic IPs we forgot to release. Snapshots from instances that no longer existed. CloudFront distributions someone set up for testing. """
No, human writers don't repeat this pattern every single paragraph. They use it at most across in a whole article.
I'm just irked that it's being called out for AI slop because "I feel it in my bones!!"
There's a good chance it was written using AI -- should that matter? If the content is wrong/sucks, say that instead. If you're going to dismiss all AI assisted writing: good luck in the next decade.
It’s like suddenly all memes are just the same meme and nobody makes their own memes because “AI does it better”.
The style of writing is an intrinsic part of communication, if you can’t critique that then what is content? We’re not machines sharing pieces of data with each other.
Maintaining and updating your own hardware comes with so much operational overhead compared to magically spinning up and down resources as needed. I don’t think this really needs to be said.
You're never just paying for the hardware.