Af en toe kom je eens een consitente voorloper tegen. Velen gaan nu nog naar de cloud maar ondertussen is de technologie er om dicht in de buurt te komen van het gemak en de betrouwbaarheid van cloud diensten op uw eigen infrastructuur met locale partners. Met wat geluk heb je nog wat interne mensen die graag voor deze challenge gaan en anders zijn wij er nog. Oud genoeg om te weten wat on prem betekent, jong genoeg om devops te snappen.
After over a decade on AWS S3, it's finally time to say farewell. We're just about to start moving our many petabytes of storage for Basecamp, HEY, and all the heritage apps onto our new Pure Storage flash beast. Fair play to AWS for comping the quarter of a million-dollar egress bill, per their public commitments. It took a while to get it approved, but in the end we got it. This means we'll be able to delete our entire AWS account this summer when the data is out. That'll be cause for quite some celebration when we finally say goodbye to our ~$1.5m/year S3 hosting bill! The savings will rack up pretty quick from there, once we've amortized the $1.5m outlay on the combined 18 petabytes of capacity we've bought from Pure across our two data centers. After that, the yearly cost will be below $200,000. Much easier to swallow than $1.5m/year! That'll conclude compressing our yearly infrastructure bill from the $3.2 million we started with to well under a million. So two+ million dollars in savings kicking in every year from there. All operated by the same team as before. Cloud can be a good choice in certain circumstances, but the industry pulled a fast one convincing everyone it's the only way. No wonder you see cloud vendors and ads and PR everywhere. There's so much money in convincing everyone that owning your own hardware is impossible or that operating Linux servers is too hard!