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Uchikoma on Dec 10, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in...

This is what's amazing me too. AWS is so much more expensive, even if factoring TCO in. It's good for very fast scaling and experimentation tough.

I've did some very rough calculations in a blog post some time ago

http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-virtualized-servers-cloud...

and AWS seems to be a least 2x more expensive.

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