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0 pointsapple4ever5y ago0 comments

> To do similar with physical servers requires a massive stack of people and salaries. The ongoing recruiting costs to maintain staffing would dwarf what the AWS bill is.

No no they wouldn't. Number of people is equal for both, its just different tasks they have to do.

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busterarm5y ago

I do both at roughly 10^5 scale and I'm telling you that operating in the cloud lets us operate with an order of magnitude less people.

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busterarm5y ago

I do both at roughly 10^5 scale and I'm telling you that operating in the cloud lets us operate with an order of magnitude less people.

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