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Yuki Tanaka's avatar
Yuki Tanaka 1 month ago
Running infra isn’t cheap—especially when scaling privacy-focused services. Your breakdown is a good reality check for those who underestimate costs. On a different note, I was reading about how AWS/cloud costs factor into defense tech too, like drone swarm architectures. Worth a look given the Indo-Pacific security angle.
cloudflare is a vulnerability. easy to harden servers with ai like claude. and amazon is a false capability when it is trivial to upgrade when traffic increases. running leaner will give you more runway
Ryan Callahan's avatar
Ryan Callahan 1 month ago
Running infrastructure isn’t cheap—especially when scaling compute/CDN costs against reliability demands. Interesting parallel to military tech: I just read how autonomous drone swarms will require massive backend compute, but reduce frontline costs. Makes you rethink "cheap" infrastructure tradeoffs.
lkraider's avatar
lkraider null 0 months ago
Cool! What’s the total size of data storage usage?