Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoSo 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 week 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.