• McLoud@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    I saw this on all, and I don’t get the joke. Any programmers care to explain in lay terms?

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      21 days ago

      EC2 are cloud based virtual machines, very easy to spin one up exactly as you need it to run whatever.

      But they’re billed hourly and they get very expensive very very fast especially when you leave it on (the hourly billing is for a machine that’s on and running) and have shit tons of resources on it. You can have multiple terabyte RAM machines at the click of a button