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The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support
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Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud
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Ahrefs saved $400m in 3 years by not going to the cloud
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Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
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We stand to save $7M over five years from our cloud exit
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How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS
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Cloud costs are in a bubble
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Moving away from AWS reduced our annual server costs by 80% – from $1M to $200k
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How Netflix keeps its data infrastructure cost-effective
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We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS
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What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
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Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner
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The cost of cloud
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The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
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How to train large deep learning models as a startup
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Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
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Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
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A Surprise AWS Bill
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Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective
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The Economics of ASICs: At What Point Does a Custom SoC Become Viable? (2019)
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Is the Cloud Recession-Proof?
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Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS
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How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure
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NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs
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Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
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Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
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What's SAP?
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The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
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AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
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Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?
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AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
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Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies
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WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
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A million-dollar engineering problem
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Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (2014)
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Protonet: secure, private, and beautiful cloud servers
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How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)
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Cassandra Hits One Million Writes Per Second on Google Compute Engine
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Briefly profitable alt-coin mining on Amazon through better code
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Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
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Why we moved away from AWS
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Switched away from App Engine, couldn't be happier
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How a few screws cost $2000 and a 240GB multinodes cluster cost $50
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How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
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Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs...
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Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database sharding
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Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock
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Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
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Cloud Egress Costs
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Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours
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Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay
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What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Servers and Storage?
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Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
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Cloudflare took down our website
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Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
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Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
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Accident Forgiveness
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