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Running an amazon instance is around 10x cheaper than using an equivalent action runner.

But for 99% of people it doesn’t matter because their usage never goes over the free allowance anyway.




You'd be surprised actually. Once you factor in network costs, running your own on AWS is only ~50% cheaper than paying for SaaS.

Factor in the opportunity cost you pay by having to have a person manage a self-hosted CI/CD cluster rather than outsourcing it, and SaaS CI/CD is around 3x better value than self-hosted.

Happy to share more detailed numbers if people are curious...




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