OpenSearch is notoriously expensive. I'll go further: any managed service at AWS is notoriously expensive.<p>NAT Gateway? Expensive.<p>Elasticache? Expensive.<p>Sagemaker suite? Expensive.<p>The list goes on. You're paying for a butt to be in a seat. I'd also like to see a breakdown of where they are spending money in S3. I've worked at places where the bill was $4m per month, so sometimes it amuses me when people complain about their (much) lower bills.
For a company that makes "tens of millions in annual <i>profits</i> " in 2020, this doesn't seems much at all.<p>They had around 60 employees, which put the salary and expenses on employees close to 12M a year.<p>Assuming the "tens" were minimum at 20M, their revenue would be around ~$35M.
$3 million per year for a business of that size doesn't sound too obscene. DHH is forgetting that electricity, cooling, fault-tolerance are also expensive, the price of "insanely powerful iron you can buy from Dell" is not the whole story.<p>Also, previously (October 2022) from DHH: <a href="https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0" rel="nofollow">https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...</a>