Hazeron Forever

[expert700]

I don't agree with Vectorus's Trust idea, I'm just piggybacking off this thread.

Here are my estimates for whether or not Haxus would get cost savings from moving to the cloud:

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Current Servers:
   1x 2U PowerEdge 2950
       - 2x 4-Core Xeon E5310/20/35/45 OR X5355/65 (He probably wouldn't use the low TDP L line.)
       - 16GB RAM
       - 6x 120GB SSD in RAID (Assume 600GB usable at the most)
   12x 1U PowerEdge 1950
       - 1x 4-Core Xeon E5310/20/35/45 OR X5355/65
       - 8GB RAM
       - Some sort of SAS HDD, probably between 73 and 750 GB.
   4x 2U PowerEdge R815
       - 4x 16-Core Opteron 6168/72/74/76/76 SE/80 SE
       - 128GB RAM

AWS Alternatives:
   1x RDS db.m5.xlarge ($159.943 Monthly / $1,791 Upfront, both for 1-Year Term)
       - 4x vCPU (Probably at least 2x as fast as x5365 cores though)
       - 16GB RAM
       - 10 Gbps Network
   1x EBS gp2 for DB ($0.10 / GB Monthly)
       - 600GB of SSD Storage
   12x EC2 t3.large ($38.11 Monthly / $426.00 Upfront, both for 1-Year Term)
       - 2x vCPU (Probably Xeon Platinum 8180, has single-thread performance roughly 2x that of X5365)
       - 8GB RAM
       - 10 Gbps Network
   4x EC2 r5.4xlarge ($463.55 Monthly / $5,192 Upfront, both for 1-Year Term)
       - 16x vCPU (Xeon Platinum 8000 Series, probably ~2.5x-3x as powerful as the Opterons.)
       - 128GB RAM
       - 10 Gbps Network
   16x EBS st1 for EC2 Instances ($0.045 / GB Monthly)
       - 150GB HDD Storage
       
AWS Cost (This does NOT include AWS bandwidth usage costs):
   Monthly: $2640 / Month, $31,680 / Year
   Upfront: $29,687 / Year

$ / U for AWS to be an Improvement: $120 / Month

A few notes:

• Some similar r4.4xlarge instances could be gotten through AWS's GameLift thing for much cheaper, but I don't really understand enough about how that works and there is probably some sort of catch.
  
• Instances with very high amounts of RAM are the biggest price sinks, I don't know specifically what those run but if that could be cut down it would lead to further cost savings.
  
• I also obviously don't know what kind of rate Haxus is currently paying. If it's above $120 a month, though, moving to the cloud would provide him with significant savings.
  
• Some other cloud provider, like Microsoft's or IBM's, might be cheaper. I don't have the time to price things out for all of them. 
  

Haxus, please notice me  :-/ .

EDIT: Data transfer rates for EC2 instances. As aforementioned, I have no real way of knowing how much bandwidth Haxus uses per month.