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		wmf on Jan 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Outposts 2021: Stories for Folks Who Love Spre... The $80K rack overhead pays for the AWS control plane. You can't get a working, fully managed OpenStack or vCloud installation for $27K/year. Every "private cloud" available now is overpriced shit. Outposts is designed to be cheaper than its competition, not radically cheap. Also, does the $80K rack overhead include switches? That's around $30K. Does it include EBS? etc.

ec109685 on Jan 30, 2021 [–]

With AWS, you are only leasing the system for 3 years, so the $30k comparison for the switch isn’t apples to apples.

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