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paxys on May 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP

More expensive - maybe, depending on how good you are at managing runaway costs.

More work - definitely not. No matter how hard managing your AWS workflows is, bare metal will always be all that same work plus everything else related to hardware, cooling, power management, ISP and more.

apple4ever on May 3, 2019 [–]

But you make one tradeoff for another.

Sure you have "hardware, cooling, power management, ISP and more", but that's all easy, especially compared to managing AWS workflows.

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