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Stephen Downes

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After reading about how they set up various services, including websites, chat instances, survey tools, and more, and after you read about the 27 Docket containers they've deployed to support some of these services, you get to the best line of the article, about halfway through: "Total annual software + infrastructure budget: $4800." Most of that goes to Amazon Web Services (AWS) which hosts the containers in the cloud. They do get some help - "$5000/year worth of Microsoft Azure hosting services (plus) $500/month sponsored hosting services from the NZ-based hosting provider, Catalyst Cloud." Still, how many universities are running all their online services for prices like this?

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