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<div><br></div><div>Mar 17, 2023, 18:24 by jwhelan0112@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Would running OSM in the cloud be cheaper? <br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Cloud services are not always cheaper and for some use cases<br></div><div dir="auto">are outrageously more expensive than operating own servers.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cloud services are already used in OSM in some places,<br></div><div dir="auto">with some further migrations being planned where it makes sense.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See for example<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+AWS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+AWS</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(and anyway major costs of running servers are people needed<br></div><div dir="auto">to administer them, in many cases reducing workload here in exchange<br></div><div dir="auto">for higher server costs is what makes cloud attractive)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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