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Dell C1100 1U (almost 4 years old) 2x 6core with HT, 24 active threads 144 GB RAM 10x 300 15k SAS
I think there are very few use cases where Amazon makes sense. Their VMs are very expensive, and under powered for what you pay.
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.
We are in the middle of deracking and throwing out (no kidding) some 3+ year old machines at my work. Care to take a guess at what a 3+ year old machine's specs are? Cause I know you don't have a chance at getting it right. Dell C1100 1U (almost 4 years old) 2x 6core with HT, 24 active threads 144 GB RAM 10x 300 15k SAS I think there are very few use cases where Amazon makes sense. Their VMs are very expensive, and u…
We are in the middle of deracking and throwing out (no kidding) some 3+ year old machines at my work. Care to take a guess at what a 3+ year old machine's specs are? Cause I know you don't have a chance at getting it right. Dell C1100 1U (almost 4 years old) 2x 6core with HT, 24 active threads 144 GB RAM 10x 300 15k SAS I think there are very few use cases where Amazon makes sense. Their VMs are very expensive, and u…
For the most part, it's because the cost of hardware isn't the only factor, but the flexibility, ability to rapidly scale (and descale), and, most importantly, the fact that Amazon takes care of all the dirty network engineering/system administration work required to keep the plumbing working.
But, hey, that's the great thing about the free market - every company/individual gets to make the choices that are most advantageous for themselves. I wouldn't be surprised that in regions where network engineers/sysadmins make less than $125-$150K/year, and there isn't a need to turn up a dozen servers overnight, (and, turn them off the night after that) - that AWS/Azure/GCS isn't attractive. But, clearly, for others, it is.
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When it comes to companies like Google and Amazon, I don't think that's a worry.
I'd actually be worried with Google. They've demonstrated a willingness to shut down revenue sinks even if it costs them good will. If these companies find themselves in a position that they're subsidizing their cloud computing offerings with profits made elsewhere, it might make more sense just to pull the plug.
As long as there are people who pay more for the Google cloud service than Google's own usage is worth, selling to others reduces the overall costs of computing for Google.
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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.
Welcome to Amazon's long-term business model.
Any time something is announced for April 1, I always have to take a minute to figure out if it's a joke or not. If I wanted to make a change for my company beginning in April, I think I would announce the planned date as April 2nd just to avoid any confusion.
GPU instances for $0.65 an hour. Wow!