But, it comes at a cost. And that cost is significant. Like magnitudes significant.
At what point does it become cheaper to hire an infra engineer? Let's see.
In the US a good infra engineer might cost you $150K/yr all in. That's not taking into account freelancers/contractors who can do it for less.
That's ~$12K/mo.
That's a lot of compute on AWS...but that's not the end of the story. Ever try getting data OUT of AWS? Yeah, those egress costs are not chump change. But that's not even the end of it.
The more important question is, what's the ratio of hosting/cloud costs to overall revenue? If colo/owned DC will yield better financials over ~few quarters, you'd be bananas as a CTO to recommend the cloud.
But, it comes at a cost. And that cost is significant. Like magnitudes significant.
At what point does it become cheaper to hire an infra engineer? Let's see.
In the US a good infra engineer might cost you $150K/yr all in. That's not taking into account freelancers/contractors who can do it for less.
That's ~$12K/mo.
That's a lot of compute on AWS...but that's not the end of the story. Ever try getting data OUT of AWS? Yeah, those egress costs are not chump change. But that's not even the end of it.
The more important question is, what's the ratio of hosting/cloud costs to overall revenue? If colo/owned DC will yield better financials over ~few quarters, you'd be bananas as a CTO to recommend the cloud.