37signals $3M cloud bill breakdown

OpenSearch is notoriously expensive. I&#x27;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&#x27;re paying for a butt to be in a seat. I&#x27;d also like to see a breakdown of where they are spending money in S3. I&#x27;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 &quot;tens of millions in annual <i>profits</i> &quot; in 2020, this doesn&#x27;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 &quot;tens&quot; were minimum at 20M, their revenue would be around ~$35M.

$3 million per year for a business of that size doesn&#x27;t sound too obscene. DHH is forgetting that electricity, cooling, fault-tolerance are also expensive, the price of &quot;insanely powerful iron you can buy from Dell&quot; is not the whole story.<p>Also, previously (October 2022) from DHH: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;world.hey.com&#x2F;dhh&#x2F;why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;world.hey.com&#x2F;dhh&#x2F;why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...</a>