A million-dollar engineering problem

Have you guys considered going bare metal or a hybrid approach? With such immense spendings (even when saving the $1m/yr) it would probably be a lot cheaper.

Re: A million-dollar engineering problem

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Post by teh » Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

I've been joking with friends that my next job will be AWS efficiency guru. I've somewhat optimized our own use, but I think I could use similar, simple rules to get 20% out of a 500k / month budget.

Give me what I save you in 2 months and I'll have a good business :)

Re: A million-dollar engineering problem

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Post by fourstar » Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 5:59 PM UTC

I wish I could invest in Segment. Lot of smart people over there.

Re: A million-dollar engineering problem

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Post by andreapaiola » Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 6:00 PM UTC

teh wrote: post #6

I've been joking with friends that my next job will be AWS efficiency guru. I've somewhat optimized our own use, but I think I could use similar, simple rules to get 20% out of a 500k / month budget. Give me what I save you in 2 months and I'll have a good business :)

If I have to give that to you it's not "savings"... :D

Re: A million-dollar engineering problem

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Post by xj9 » Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 6:01 PM UTC

andreapaiola wrote: post #8

teh wrote: post #6

I've been joking with friends that my next job will be AWS efficiency guru. I've somewhat optimized our own use, but I think I could use similar, simple rules to get 20% out of a 500k / month budget. Give me what I save you in 2 months and I'll have a good business :)

If I have to give that to you it's not "savings"... :D

but you do save money every month after that!

Re: A million-dollar engineering problem

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Post by cheez » Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 6:03 PM UTC

teh wrote: post #6

I've been joking with friends that my next job will be AWS efficiency guru. I've somewhat optimized our own use, but I think I could use similar, simple rules to get 20% out of a 500k / month budget. Give me what I save you in 2 months and I'll have a good business :)

I don't think that's a bad proposition at all. If I were a business person running on AWS, I'd do it.