My company uses AWS to provision high-performance servers in order to run a bunch of cpu-heavy simulations. The first week i got there, i was like, why are you guys renting servers from AWS. If you always expect to be using x amount of cpus, you should just buy that much and use AWS for overflow if needed. I was shot down, of course. Two years later, we are now working on getting our own servers, after wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on renting from aws.
My company uses AWS to provision high-performance servers in order to run a bunch of cpu-heavy simulations. The first week i got there, i was like, why are you guys renting servers from AWS. If you always expect to be using x amount of cpus, you should just buy that much and use AWS for overflow if needed. I was shot down, of course. Two years later, we are now working on getting our own servers, after wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on renting from aws.
Even just renting bare metal instead of AWS can save hundreds of thousands a year