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Well, they had a pretty big head start. And I do remember not understanding why people were going for AWS 4-5 years ago instead of self-hosted clouds of rented
by johansch 11y ago
Well, they had a pretty big head start. And I do remember not understanding why people were going for AWS 4-5 years ago instead of self-hosted clouds of rented actual servers at 1/5 the cost.
Besides that, when starting last summer to evaluate both services, I didn't find much that was in the benefit of AWS, compared to GC.
(Besides AWS China. GC does not currently operate in China. I really, really want them to fix this.)
Oh, and in case you wanted an explanation: it's called groupthink and echo chamber. In (the more frugal, because less VC) Europe we were all amazed at how much american startups would pay for hosting.
- bcoates 11y agoFor the kinds of things medium-big spenders spend money on (mostly, largish amounts of network storage and the network to connect it to app servers) AWS was the first major provider to be decently competitive. I remember pricing this out at the time, a lot of what you're paying for on EC2 is proximity to EBS, which other providers at the time either didn't have an equivalent to or charged several multiples of AWS prices. If it's 2010 you're used to the costs of a hosted or coloed system with tens of TB of NetApp storage starting your next project on AWS was compelling in a way discount providers was not.