Four years ago, I needed 256gb of ram, and it was costing about $1-2k a month in the cloud, which I replaced with a server on ebay with 1,5tb of ram for about €2k- which I was pricing against equivalent to what I was renting for about $6k or so on newegg. And I think the dumbest IT procurement manager in the planet could've gotten it from Lenovo or HPE or something for $10k providing the easiest 20% savings if they move on-prem.
Four years ago, I needed 256gb of ram, and it was costing about $1-2k a month in the cloud, which I replaced with a server on ebay with 1,5tb of ram for about €2k- which I was pricing against equivalent to what I was renting for about $6k or so on newegg. And I think the dumbest IT procurement manager in the planet could've gotten it from Lenovo or HPE or something for $10k providing the easiest 20% savings if they move on-prem.
How much is your $96k server on AWS?