Yup, last time I priced this in RDS I got to maybe $20k a month for two reserved instances across AZs.
I pay for our rack outright every 3-4 months from what I can tell. Still takes the same number of infra/ops/sre people as well. We staff 2, but really just have 1.25 worth of FTE work, you just need more for redundancy.
Pretty nuts! This is also why I am so dismissive of performance optimization. Yeah, I'll just buy a new set of three machines with 2tb of ram each in a few years and call it good, still come out ahead.
I pay for our rack outright every 3-4 months from what I can tell. Still takes the same number of infra/ops/sre people as well. We staff 2, but really just have 1.25 worth of FTE work, you just need more for redundancy.
Pretty nuts! This is also why I am so dismissive of performance optimization. Yeah, I'll just buy a new set of three machines with 2tb of ram each in a few years and call it good, still come out ahead.