Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free
theregister.com> $700,000 of Dell systems
$700k of new Dell servers isn't that many, probably max of 2 full racks. Which is probably costing them less than 10k/month to colocate. People often don't realize how little colocation costs these days.
They don't mention any extra costs for people to manage the on premise setup. I mean its probably still a savings for them but it seems weird to leave that out.
It's because there aren't any additional people, the ones who managed the cloud resources now manage the on-prem resources:
> "We've been out for just over a year now, and the team managing everything is still the same. There were no hidden dragons of additional workloads associated with the exit that required us to balloon the team, as some spectators speculated when we announced it."
Dupe, posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904076
The greatest trick Bezos ever pulled was convincing us to use the cloud for strady-statw, predictable loads