Comment by tinix
7 months ago
what can you do that redis can't?
I'm also skeptical of the graph on your front page that claims S3 cost as much as DynamoDB.
that alone makes it look like total nonsense.
as someone else said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
> what can you do that redis can't?
Keep the data in S3 for 0.023 USD per GB-month. If you have a billion keys that can be useful.
> I'm also skeptical of the graph on your front page that claims S3 cost as much as DynamoDB.
Good point. Could have put a bit more work into that.
> Good point. Could have put a bit more work into that.
On second thought, and after looking at my cost estimates, the reason DynamoDB ends up costing about the same as S3 for this kind of use case is storage costs. DynamoDB is a lot cheaper than S3 to write to, but 5-10x more expensive to keep data stored in. So after about 16-32 months you reach break even.