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		ilaksh on Feb 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted? Right, its a proxy for all of their costs, but when the pricing and hardware stays the same while hardware and bandwidth costs decline, that means the value is declining.

bingbing on Feb 11, 2012 [–]

Hardware and bandwidth aren't as much of a cost factor as datacenter power / cooling.

When systems can support more memory (and adequate cpu to utilize it) per watt, then pricing should decrease.

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