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Rarely do people "get" that if you have a consistent workload or resource need, AWS is more expensive than your own gear.


But presumably Amazon benefits (saves money) from making more use of hardware resources. It has to have some spare, but not as much spare as a comparable group of non-AWS users would have in total....

Also, presumably, not all the AWS users are awake at the same time ;-)


> But presumably Amazon benefits (saves money) from making more use of hardware resources

yeah, they sure do.




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