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Absolutely. Amazon is selling magic beans[0], quite often. They have lots of tools that they convince new engineers are the best. But quite often, if not alw
by late2part 11y ago
Absolutely. Amazon is selling magic beans[0], quite often. They have lots of tools that they convince new engineers are the best. But quite often, if not always, the existing FOSS tools (upon which most of AWS is built and from whence they came) offer superior performance at a far better price point for most scale.
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- UK-AL 11y agoI think AWS doesn't go for "superior performance at a far better price point for most scale". They go for, our solutions are a click away, and take far less time to setup then rolling your own. You know because engineer costs are the biggest cost component really. Once your at a large enough scale, then yes engineer costs become a smaller component and becomes worth it.
- late2part 11y agoCorrect. But I believe they sell and market it this way. Their best value is for companies that want burstability, convenience and/or have dysfunctional organizations that have slow internal expensive bureaucracy.