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_ondq on Sept 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Web Services in Plain English

Empirically I've found that point to be at approximately the $30k/month spend rate (somewhere around 4-5 years in--arguably no longer strictly a "startup"). Of course it's pretty context-dependent, YMMV, etc.

samstave on Sept 11, 2015 [–]

For what type of service though?

Netflix spends millions on AWS -- but it would never make sense for them to do it themselves.

My average was ~$140K per month -- and it would NOT have made sense to do self DC.

Right now, im deploying from DC to AWS and dropping my cost and increasing my performance...

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