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It's definitely not accepted that power and cooling are the dominant cost, in most cases it's the servers: From James Hamilton (who just happens to work for Am
by abthomson 16y ago
It's definitely not accepted that power and cooling are the dominant cost, in most cases it's the servers:
From James Hamilton (who just happens to work for Amazon)
http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/18/OverallDataCenterCosts.aspx http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/18/OverallDataCente...
- mrb 16y agoStrange. I read James' blog (I even linked to it). And I remember posts demonstrating the reverse, that the cost of servers was not dominant in large-scale data centers, but dominant only in medium- and small-scale data centers (think typical enterprise data centers). James was using this data to explain why it made sense for enterprises to benefit from large-scale cost savings by moving to EC2. Anyway, this does not change my point that the EC2 hourly prices are so high that they eclipse both power & cooling as well as server costs for Amazon.