Yes, that's correct re: Region -- thanks for the clarification.
In some sense, yes. But, the consistency that you're trading is only for accessing data simultaneously through the file interface and the S3 interface simultaneously. The consistent is CP/strong when you access the data through the file interface. The model that we see most often work is folks will ingest data through S3 (for example, an 'input/' prefix), and then the file system will process that data and place it in a different directory (for example, an 'output/' folder). Then, if it takes a minute or two for those to update on the other side, it's not a big deal.
The statistics can be found in the public earnings of AWS vs the companies that would get paid for on-prem workloads (Equinix, Dell/HP/IBM, Intel etc).
That's really where you see that no answer is right across the board.
I worked at a very small startup years ago that leaned heavily on EC2. Our usage was pretty bipolar, the service was along the lines of a real-time game so we either had a very heavy work load or nothing. We stood up EC2 instances when games were lice and wound them down after.
We did use Lambda for a few things, mainly APIs that were rarely used or for processing jobs in an event queue.
Serverless has its place for sure, but in my experience it have been heavily over used the last 3-5 years.
* AWS segment sales increased 19% year-over-year to $27.5 billion.
That means AWS brought in $4.3 BILLION more dollars in Q3 2024 vs 2023.
That's a huge amount of incremental revenue growth. If the net movement of workloads were out of the cloud, then it would have to show up in the results of Intel / TSMC / Equinix et. al.
I just took a look, and Equinix quarterly revenue is $2.1B.
Yes, indeed HN is glorified marketing and networking for YC :)
But I think a16z has spent a lot more time and money on their marketing efforts, especially as it relates to crypto. I for one am sick of hearing news stories, only to find that they're thinly veiled a16z marketing pitches for crypto scams.
I don't want to justify much, if any, of the behaviour of the incel/redpill crowd but...
For me several years passed between thinking 'I would like to lose my virginity' and said event happening. Should anybody feel sorry for me? No. But I can empathize with some of the feelings that lead people down that path.
To me, the biggest issue is the hostility of certain crowds that prevents us from discussing and exploring these phenomenons. There is this whole "women don't owe you sex" overreaction that is very quick to silence any discussion.
At the same time sexual satisfaction is strongly correlated with happiness (or depression) and both genders experience very different phenomena here.
The flip side of "women don't owe you sex" is "men don't owe you good sex", or even safe sex for that matter. Many women are sexually unhappy, it's not nearly as easy for them as the typical 'incel' might assume. That's yet another reason why incels do not put any effort into becoming better romantic prospects, they have no idea that they're even supposed to! And dating apps do nothing to address this, either.
Somebody didn't believe me that I thought (based on LinkedIn) that there were over 50k AWS employees in 2020. According to this article, there are over 100k AWS employeees now!
They just... don't retire them? The most expensive thing in a DC is the chips, so it's worth it to just build more datacenter space and keep the old ones around.
In 2019, before I left the EC2 Networking / VPC team, we were using M3 instances for our internal services... those machines were probably installed in 2013 or 2014, making them over 5 years old.
With the slowdown in Moore's law and chip speeds, I'd wager that team is still using those M3s now.
Eventually the machines actually start failing, so they need to be retired, but a large portion of machines likely make it to 10 years.
They for sure can find a use internally for them. Hat-tip to the less-shiny teams like glacier that have to endlessly put out fires on dilapidated old s3 compute/array handmedowns.
But anyway, from your YCombinator blurb:
Does this mean Regatta trades consistency for cost (S3 and EBS and local storage are all CP systems these days)?