I’d like to thank the admins for being so open and direct about the issues that they’re facing.
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To be fair, with a proper autoscaling scheme in place these services should scale down significantly when not in use.
That being said, a big reason for using AWS/GCP is all the additional services that are available on the platform.. If the workload being run isn't that complicated, the hyperscalers are probably overkill. Even DO or Linode would be a better option under those circumstances.
This. AWS architect here. There are a lot of ways to reduce pricing in AWS like horizontal scaling, serverless functions, reserved instances. Most people aren't aware of it and if you're going to dive in head first into something like cloud, you'll need to bear the consequences and then learn eventually.
Even with ASGs, ec2 costs a bomb for performance.
And "serverless" functions are a trap.
If you're gonna commit to reserved instances, just buy hardware for goodness sake, its a 3 year commitment with a huge upfront spend.
You can do one year dedicated spend.
But yes. Serverless is a trap to be avoided.
Mark my words the loop is coming back around. I look forward to when my work migrates the datacenter off AWS back on prem because of ballooning costs.
You work in IT long enough you see it for the joke it is. We get paid obscene amounts of money to do what amounts to nothing.
Just because rotating managers always come with the 'new current thing everyone is doing'.
Like no, 99% of companies can just do what they've always done. No need to rebuild everything from scratch.
I'm already in the middle of that. Everything non-public-facing is going to cheap lease boxes running workloads in docker. idgaf if the machine underneath lives or dies, its 3 lines of config in a terraform script to replace.