I'll always celebrate stories like this, but I also don't take some kind of anti-AWS lesson from it.
This company saved $800k/year. Perfect time to go in-house with this solution.
But when they were 1/10th this size, they'd only have saved $80k/year. Does that cover the cost of the engineering to build and maintain this system? Maybe not. And when they were 1/100th the size, it would have been laughable to go in-house.
At the right time, you make the right transitions.
This company saved $800k/year. Perfect time to go in-house with this solution.
But when they were 1/10th this size, they'd only have saved $80k/year. Does that cover the cost of the engineering to build and maintain this system? Maybe not. And when they were 1/100th the size, it would have been laughable to go in-house.
At the right time, you make the right transitions.