alt Hacker NewsWhat am I paying for?
I worked out that the markup on CPU, network bandwidth, and storage for the default logging products from the major clouds is on the order of 25x to 500x.
Okay, sure, there's some people that need to be paid, the back-end software may have some licensed components, etc, etc...
But still, comparing this to any other cloud service, the gross profit margin is just ridiculous!
It's the typical IT marketing trick of selling the commodity (VMs) at competitive prices, and then clawing back the profits via the "enterprise add-ons".
I mean: we faced the same buy/build issue, and we went "build", and while I wouldn't say it was our worst decision, it was not one of our best either. Certainly the problem doesn't simply boil down to NVME gigabyte costs!
That said: we both agree, log ingestion services are extremely expensive.