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This is huge. Startups everywhere are huge beneficiaries of this price war between Amazon and Google over the future of cloud computing.
Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?
The EC2 C3 instance type is going to be about the same price as DO for 1 year reserve and less than DO for 3 year. Spot pricing will also be lower than DO for C3s. On top of that EC2 is far superior to DO in many ways: EBS off instance storage (DO is local storage only), volume snapshots, IPv6, load balancing, private IPs, multiple IPv4 addresses, 8 data centers globally, firewalls, VPN, VPC, PCI DSS compliance, comp…
how are they still making profits ?
Economically cloud can make a lot of sense for several potential customers, including:
* those who have highly variable workloads (so they can spin up lots of servers to meet demand then spin them down afterwards)
* those who favor OpEx over CapEx (Like startups)
* and for those who are bypassing internal IT for TTM reasons (e.g. "shadow IT")
Another point to consider is that while AWS is increasingly dropping prices the same is in effect happening for people procuring their own hardware. The performance over price ratio (on multiple axis) is also improving for on premises deployments (c.f. Moore's Law).
I just reserved a series of heavy-utilization m3.xlarge instances for roughly $30k. Apparently, if I had waited a month, I could have saved about $13k because of these price reductions. I can't help but feel that I got really fucked by poor timing that I couldn't control. It would hurt so much less if these price changes were more gradual and somewhat consistent (perhaps monthly).
It's worth calling and talking to your sales rep about this. I've found AWS to be surprisingly accommodating with pricing.
how are they still making profits ?
But that's been Amazon's strategy for almost two decades. Their goal is to instead grow their business. Currently they are at $74 Billion / year in revenue, and still increasing. Once they stop their massive spending on growth, they will (presumably) be able to increase their profits.
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Well, you break your services out onto stateless and stateful machines. After that, you make sure that each of your stateful services is resilient to individual node failure. I prefer to believe that if you can't roll your entire infrastructure over to new nodes monthly then you're unprepared for the eventual outage of a stateful service. Most databases have replication but you need to make sure that the characterist…
And you do what for loadbalancing?
That or sidestep ELB in your region to a team of stateless load balancers that terminate SSL.
This is huge. Startups everywhere are huge beneficiaries of this price war between Amazon and Google over the future of cloud computing.
Let's just hope they all stay in business so we don't end up with only one player in the market...who can then jack up prices at will.
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The EC2 C3 instance type is going to be about the same price as DO for 1 year reserve and less than DO for 3 year. Spot pricing will also be lower than DO for C3s. On top of that EC2 is far superior to DO in many ways: EBS off instance storage (DO is local storage only), volume snapshots, IPv6, load balancing, private IPs, multiple IPv4 addresses, 8 data centers globally, firewalls, VPN, VPC, PCI DSS compliance, comp…
EC2 does not have IPv6.
I would be so happy if Heroku passed along these price cuts to their customers, but based on past AWS price cuts, I'm not holding my breath.
Heroku launched with $0.05/hr pricing.
Amazon's new m1.small pricing is $0.044/hr, nearly a 50% price drop over four years.
Heroku still is $0.05/hr, the same price as when it launched. Heroku runs on EC2.
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