At my work there was a big push to get things out of our own isolated data centers and into AWS because we had some services that were really very vulnerable and not equipped to serve a global distributed audience well. AWS solved that problem for us and our devs liked working with it. However now our AWS bill is so high that we’re pushing everyone to reduce it. I guess that makes sense. We’re not going back to self-hosting, just optimizing and reducing. But it sure feels like whiplash from “get everything into AWS” to “we have too much in AWS.”
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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It’s almost as if centralizing everything is fucking stupid.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
So it sounds like rather than investing in your own systems you outsourced and now it costs far more.
Shit son that’s the same as almost every industry.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do t know if it costs far more but AWS is one big bill whereas running your own systems is a bunch of smaller expenses including real estate and employees in addition to hardware and utilities costs, insurance, etc which are harder to count. Moving to AWS didn’t just replace that, it gave us a higher level is service reliability and availability.
I think it costs a ridiculous amount because we moved over services that were built on self-run data centers where they were not billed on CPU cycles in a transparent way. We can likely cut th AWS bill in half through intelligent refactoring and optimization. Smarter data retention periods, etc.
innermachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But the bean counters said it was the best idea!
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Accountants shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions beyond their personal lives. MBAs even more so