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183 points crescit_eundo | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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metadat ◴[28 Aug 25 16:16 UTC] No.45053982[source]▶
Fiendishly outlandish idea, incredibly wrong that it should even be possible for the existence of Hoshino to even have ever been a thought, yet here we are. I love it!

On a related note, have you seen the prices at Whole Foods lately? $6 for a packet of dehydrated miso soup. This usually costs $2.50 served prepared at a sushi restaurant. AWS network egress fees are similarly blasphemous.

Shame on Amazon, lol. Though it's really capitalisms fault, if you think it through all the way.

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sneak ◴[28 Aug 25 16:33 UTC] No.45054165[source]▶
Why is it Amazon’s fault that people voluntarily choose to use Amazon?

Even with the massive margins, cloud computing is far cheaper for most SMEs than hiring an FTE sysadmin and racking machines in a colo.

The problem is that people forget to switch back to the old way when it’s time.

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1. devmor ◴[28 Aug 25 17:39 UTC] No.45054862[source]▶
> Even with the massive margins, cloud computing is far cheaper for most SMEs than hiring an FTE sysadmin and racking machines in a colo.

That very much depends on your use case and billing period. Most of my public web applications run in a colo in Atlanta on containers hosted by less than $2k in hardware and cached by Cloudflare. This replaced an AWS/Digitalocean combination that used to bill about $400/mo.

Definitely worth it for me, but there are some workloads that aren’t worth it and I stick with cloud services to handle.

I would estimate that a significant amount of services hosted on AWS are paid for by small businesses with less reliability and uptime requirements than I have.