I remember an AWS sales person who had come to a company I was working at. He kept saying "pennies". "And you can fire up an instance for just pennies" "And you can add some additional storage for pennies...literally pennies" Those pennies add up yo
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Yeah. Tech can be expensive if you’re bad at math
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The Pinterest COGS was ... whoa
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Wait for another 3-5 years and see how much new IPO companies spend on Stripe fees...
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Would be interesting to see estimated equivalent DC costs
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And the time required to build out said DCs with equivalent uptime, scalability and global coverage.
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It's still far cheaper than building their own data centres. There was a detailed thread on twitter (can't find it now) that explained this with numbers. But ya cloud ain't cheap on its own
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Cloud replaces the inexpensive and cost-stable part of the IT budget. The people who write, maintain, and administer the stuff in the cloud are still the real expense.
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Yeah, we get it! You don't understand the first thing about cloud and it's insanely cheap serverless offerings that you can run your geo-redundant services on for only coffee money. This was *maybe* relevant in 2010...
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