Everybody has this notion that AWS is cheap. It's not cheap - It's rapidly scalable. Up or Down. So it can be cheap at times of low usage.
If you're in the business of having your own datacenter, there's room there to cut some of your costs, but I think a lot of it just shuffles around. It really shines if you can put the automation in place to scale things invisibly on the fly to take advantage of the ebbs and flows in your demand. Lots of options out there for doing that. Its like your networks, you guys have to build for peak(theoretically). With AWS, you build/commit for the average, and burst for the peaks then ratchet back down with the demand. The thing I hate about AWS is the way they've organized things. As somewhat of what I'd consider a "networking traditionalist" a lot of this stuff takes some time to wrap your head around. It's laid out to coerce you into using as many of their services as possible. A simple deployment winds up sprawling across a large part of their offering rather quick. Just my 2 cents. TT ________________________________ From: Af <[email protected]> on behalf of Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 7:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Sold TSLA, whats next? I didn't know it is most of thier revenue either. It doesn't surprise me. I got an email about their AppStream2 program for a free trial. I tried it, it didn't work, and they billed me $600 bucks. Maybe it works better now, it is still to expensive. On Tue, Feb 7, 2017, 10:13 PM That One Guy /sarcasm <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: AWS has intrigued me, they don't follow the normal rules of scale, shedding the lighter, less profitable loads as they grow. They host anything and everything and don't seem to care. It may be they actually follow the rules of scale in volume. Taking everything, even free grammars cookie flat pages knowing that X percentage of the freebies will generate a small revenue. It's a hard concept for me to visualize, I still think 4tb is a lot of data On Feb 7, 2017 8:31 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: AWS has been the largest cloud provider by a large margin for at least half a decade - even picking up those juicy government (CIA even) contracts to boot. I guess I just figured someone involved in IT would know that given their scale *shrug* On Feb 7, 2017 6:48 PM, "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Serious question? How would I know information before exposure to said information? ------ Original Message ------ From: "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 2/7/2017 7:07:05 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Sold TSLA, whats next? Did you not know that before you read about it? On Feb 7, 2017 3:24 PM, "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I also read their biggest money maker now is not the books, or streaming, or any other crap they sell in their store. It's AWS. Which started out as a side thing they were doing. It's like if an ISP started selling books on the side, and the book business took off better than the ISP. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 2/7/2017 4:10:39 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Sold TSLA, whats next? Didn't it only take Amazon 15+ years to become profitable?? LOL Travis On 2/7/2017 1:58 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: They have a statement in their prospectus that they may never achieve profitability. From: Josh Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Sold TSLA, whats next? Anybody waiting for the Snap, Inc. IPO? On Feb 7, 2017 11:17 AM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" <[email protected]> wrote: TOGS is up and coming, getting in on the ground floor is an opportunity not to be missed. Currently a privately held stock, limited to a select few investors. This thing is gonna be bigger than if Edsel had a baby with bernie maddof wint a pinch of enron stuffed into a solyndra cell. On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: Waiting for GoPro to drop below 8. From: Gino Villarini Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 10:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Sold TSLA, whats next? Thanks for the tip! Gino Villarini President Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 [cid:[email protected]] -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
