Meta is moving to the Cloud 🌩

[Falco]

Meta is hosted in the same setup we use for our Enterprise customers, so it certainly doesn’t fit the free tier. See this previous post:

Meta is moving to the Cloud

Not really, I think you nailed it. Note we do have 1 year reserved instances for a few of our EC2 VMs so the cost is probably closer to the $1300 a month once amortized. We can probably reduce cost a bit by moving Redis to a EC2 instance and rolling our own vs using ElasticCache which is a bit of a premium. Overall, we have been very happy with our AWS experience, but it is certainly a bit pricey compared to our bare metal setup. We also squeeze a tiny bit more performance out of our bare met…

Only change so far is moving away from Elasticache since the service had some rough edges. We run Redis ourselves.