It's like "discovering" you reduced your food costs by 80% by going to the supermarket instead of ordering uber eats at every meal... is anyone surprised ?
[Dupe] of several -<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053416" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053416</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33007873" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33007873</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036448" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036448</a>
I’m sure this is well thought out and is probably a good template for other organizations that have reached the point of scale where cost optimization of the workload is needed.<p>But, the first step I would take to control AWS costs is to complain to your account manager. Internet egress private discounts in AWS are extreme and an open secret. I’d start there before introducing infra tech debt.
I couldn't find mention of comparative hardware/license/support costs for the on-prem servers. Is there that kind of resource out there readily available?