Side by Side Comparison
A BUBBLES CASE STUDY
ON PREMISE
AWS
BUBBLES + OVH
Costs, Time & People
CASE STUDY: Currently Running on AWS
COMPANY NAME: PHUMA SYSTEMS
About the Company:
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A BioTech company that creates their own software
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Develops software on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS*
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Grew their IT & Devops team from 1 to 4 in 2 years
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Increased cloud costs from $2.5K USD/Month to $82K USD/Month
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Cloud spend expected to rise as the company grows
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Using AWS (cloud) as their outsourced Data Center
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AWS provides infrastructure automation (spin’s up VM’s 1 at a time)
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Currently Running 250 VM Instances*
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Cloud Spend: $82K USD/Month*
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Growth Projections:
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Expected infrastructure growth by 4x to 1,000 VM instances next year
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Projected Cloud Spend: $330K USD/Month*
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Staying on the Cloud
Monthly Expense: $330K USD
Annual Expense: $4M USD
OPTION 1: On Premise Migration
CHALLENGES AND COSTS:
Challenges:
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Migration time estimated 12+ months
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Some OPEX would now become CAPEX
Costs:
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Migrating to on-premise has a high upfront cost of hardware
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New 13 x Dell R650 Servers: $710K USD*
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New Networking Equipment: $21K USD*
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Long procurement times for hardware
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VMware License: $83K USD/Year*
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Colocation Data Center: $14K USD/Year*
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Concurrent cloud spend until migration completion
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Hiring 6 senior engineers* for migration & building IT automation
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6 Engineers: $780K USD/Year
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Feeling like they are ‘stuck’ with the cloud
Moving On Premise
Monthly Expense: $73K USD
Annual Expense: $880K USD
PLUS Upfront Capital Expense = $730K USD
OPTION 2: Bubbles on OVH Data Center
COMPANY NAME: PHUMA SYSTEMS
Bubbles + OVH Data Center Solution:
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Open OVH* Data Center account and order bare metal servers
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3rd largest infrastructure provider worldwide
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32 reliable and sustainable Data Centers
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Equivalent hardware* specs procured in minutes
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Set up in 2 weeks (complete migration within 3 months)
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No need to hire additional engineers and technicians
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Still OPEX due to running as a managed service
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Better performance than cloud (non-shared resources)
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Multiple instances spun up & spooled down on-demand
Total Monthly Cost:
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Bubbles Subscription Cost: $15K USD
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Bubbles Managed Service Provider: $8K USD*
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OVH Monthly Hardware and Service Cost: $18K USD*
Bubbles + OVH Total Cost
Monthly Expense: $41K USD
Annual Expense: $495K USD
(Bubbles + OVH + VMware Total Cost: $540K USD/Year)
SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON
AWS
Built-in IT Infrastructure Automation
Application Deployment Automation
Simple Multi-Instance Provisioning
Built-in IT DevOps Automation
Short Migration
Ease of Hardware Scalability
Easy Cross-continent Scalability
Inexpensively Scalable
No Data Center Responsibilities
Additional Hires
Equipment Costs
No Warranty or License purchases
No Hardware Responsibilities
OPEX (Tax favoured accounting)
Overall Cost Savings
TOTAL ANNUAL COST: $4M USD
ON-PREMISE MIGRATION
Built-in IT Infrastructure Automation
Application Deployment Automation
Simple Multi-Instance Provisioning
Built-in IT DevOps Automation
Short Migration
Ease of Hardware Scalability
Easy Cross-continent Scalability
Inexpensively Scalable
No Data Center Responsibilities
Additional Hires
Equipment Costs
No Warranty or License purchases
No Hardware Responsibilities
OPEX (Tax favoured accounting)
Overall Cost Savings
TOTAL ANNUAL COST: $880K USD
UPFRONT CAPEX: $730K USD
TIME TO COMPLETION: 12+ MONTHS
DEVOPS PRIVATE CLOUD POWERED BY BUBBLES
Built-in IT Infrastructure Automation
Application Deployment Automation
Simple Multi-Instance Provisioning
Built-in IT DevOps Automation
Short Migration
Ease of Hardware Scalability
Easy Cross-continent Scalability
Inexpensively Scalable
No Data Center Responsibilities
Additional Hires
Equipment Costs
No Warranty or License purchases
No Hardware Responsibilities
OPEX (Tax favoured accounting)
Overall Cost Savings
TOTAL ANNUAL COST: $495K USD
TIME TO COMPLETION: 3 Months
AWS Comparision = 87.5% Savings
On-Premise Comparison = 44% + $730K USD Savings
APPENDIX
SLIDE 2 - CURRENTLY RUNNING ON AWS
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Red Hat Linux License purchased separately from AWS
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250 VM Instances
Total: 4.2TB RAM + 52.5TB SSD + NVME
50 x (t3.medium) + 100GB SSD EBS
50 x (t3.xlarge) + 250GB SSD EBS
100 x(c5d.2xlarge) + 200GB NVME
50 x (c5d.4xlarge) + 400GB NVME
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Configuration of VMs only for comparison purposes for similar specs with on-premise and OVH installations. Most cloud installations usually have additional charged services such as load balancer services and database services.
Prices calculated using: https://calculator.aws/#/estimate
Total Monthly Spend: $82K USD
Total Annual Spend: $980K USD
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Projected cloud spend cost is a simple calculation based on using the exact same type of the existing 250 VM instances that are already being used and multiplying it by 4
Total Monthly Spend: $82K USD x 4 = $330K USD
Total Annual Spend: $980K USD x 4 = $4M USD
SLIDE 3 - OPTION 1: ON-PREMISE MIGRATION
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Need 13 Dell R650 servers for equivalent AWS specs:
Dell Machine Cost = $54,362 USD
13 x $54,362 USD = $706,706 USD
Additional option is to purchase refurbished machines for $291,655 USD
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Networking:
2 x 10GB Switches: Dell Force10 S4810P
2 x $4,752 USD = $9,504 USD
2 x 10GB Firewalls: Fortinet FG-600D
2 x $5,533USD = $11,066 USD
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VMware Licensing:
vSphere License = $5,780 USD / Server / Year
13 x $5,780 USD/Year = $75,140 USD/Year
vCenter Server Standard License = $7,572 USD/Year
1 x $7,572 USD/Year = $7,572 USD/Year
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Colocation Data Center
1 Rack = $1,200 USD/Month
1 Rack x 12 Months = $14.4K USD/Year
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6 Engineers:
2 x $150K Systems Administrators = $300K/Year USD
2 x $150K DevOps Engineer = $300K/Year USD
2 x $90K Data Center Technicians = $180K/Year USD
SLIDE 4 - OPTION 2: BUBBLES ON OVH DATA CENTER
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About OVH: https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/
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Servers that match the specs of the VM instances used in AWS:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/high-grade/hgr-hci-6/
DUAL AMD Epyc 7532 - 64 CPU (128 Threads)
2TB RAM
4TB Storage Disk x 12 = 24TB → Raid 6 = 40TB Usable Storage
10 GB/s Public Bandwidth + 50 GB/s Private Bandwidth
Required Servers = 4
$4,4162 USD/Month x 4 Servers = $16,648 USD/Month
$16,648 USD x 12 Months x 4 Servers = $199,776 USD/Year
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Bubbles Software Corp. to provide support for all supporting Data Center Software included in addition to Bubbles Platform
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The Bubbles Orchestration System will require 3 physical servers:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-3/
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - 12 CPU (128 Threads)
128GB RAM
2TB Storage Disc x 4 = 8TB → RAID 5 = 6TB Usable Storage
1 GB/s Public Bandwidth + 6 GB/s Private Bandwidth
Required Servers = 3
$492 USD/Month x 3 Servers = $1,476 USD/Month
$1,476 USD x 12 Months x 3 Servers = $17,712 USD/Year
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