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Comment by jpgvm

In my experience noone bothers unless they are using GPUs or they are already at 100k/mo.

I do think 100k/mo is the tipping point actually, that is $1.2M/yr.

It costs around $400k/yr in engineering salaries to reasonably support a sophisticated bare metal deployment (though such people can generally do that AND provide a lot of value elsewhere in the business, so really it's actual cost is lower than this) and about $100k/yr in DC commitments, HW amortisation, and BW roughly. So you save around $700k a year which is great but the benefit becomes much greater when your equiv cloud spend is even bigger than that.

parent jpgvm 1 year ago

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