That's just it though. I own all of my hardware outright, so the only costs at the moment for us is the data centre costs which current is a little over 2k a month and includes 100 Gb of data. I have full control of security, firewalls, the servers, environments and if needed i can walk up to the server, plug a USB drive in and either do backups or transfer large amounts of data to my servers. I have a full rack available to me and i agree that if i was looking to expand, then the cost of hardware will be more than a new instance in the cloud.
Looking at the figures starting out fresh, the TCO is much higher with the typical data centre infrastructure on a hardware level and possible hardware maintenance level but the ongoing costs of a cloud seems to be just as high or higher than traditional data center services for running systems. Yes cloud scaling is nice but when then ongoing costs of basic infrastructure ends up being more what would be the compelling argument to move to a cloud? Steve On Sep 8, 11:43 am, Chong <kck...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an ex colleague that work projects uses EC2... how do you arrive at > 450-500 per instance excluding data? > > With my discussions with him and a few others, it is very hard to estimate > your actual usage till you get on it. > > For me the potential lies in > > - Ability to exist beyond different regions (the likely hood of all the > datacenters going down in all the region is very very small) > - scalable (you can switch the instance type, and I also believe there is > the ability to create/increase capacity via code/conditions) > - Not needing to worry about hardware > > So for my understand so far, for you to get maximum benefit from EC2 is to > architect the app/site whereby it can exists between different "regions" , > know how to interface with EC2 to scale when needed... not needing to worry > about hardware is common with any hosting provider, cloud or non cloud. > > Besides the fact that it is cheaper, due to scale of economics. > > Just my uneducated 2 cents :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
