“For 2024, we’ve brought the cloud bill down from the original $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million.”
The $700,000 of Dell hardware paid for itself during 2023. The remaining $1.3 million is S3, locked in a four-year contract since 2021, and its replacement is 18 petabytes of Pure Storage that costs about one year of the S3 bill. The same team runs all of it. AWS’s best long-term discount still loses to buying the disks.