alt Hacker NewsCloud providers have to buy new hardware too to grow and to replace failing/obsolete units. They will have to raise their prices sooner or later too.
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KptMarchewa • today at 12:48 PM
AWS will happily sell you instances based on 12 year old Haswell.
> Cloud providers have to buy new hardware too to grow and to replace failing/obsolete units.
They can negotiate better prices based on their scale, and even on their ability to internally source key components if needed.
E.g. if AWS/Microsoft/Google/Apple buy 80% of Micron's entire output it's probably at a much better price than the rest of us competing over the other 20% are going to get.