Singaporean SEO vendor Ahrefs claims that it can save $400M over a three-year period simply by opting to keep its infrastructure on-premises instead of exclusively using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
On March 9, Erim Mirochnik, a company executive, shared a post outlining the cost comparison between its infrastructure and AWS.
- Mirochnik
explained how Ahrefs consolidated all the costs coming from its own
data center, divided them by the total number of servers, and compared
that figure to the price of a similar installation in the AWS cloud.
- Based
on its calculations, the company concluded it could save $1,550 per
server per month for 850 servers, resulting in roughly $408M in savings
over the next three years.
- The company also found that the cost of one AWS server is equivalent to 11.3 Ahrefs on-prem servers.
- Ahrefs
is not the only company that has decided to use its own cloud
infrastructure. In January, the CTO of Chicago-based software company 37signals announced plans to stop using AWS cloud services after receiving a $3.2M cloud bill for 2022.
