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Why does everyone(really!) compare aws to colocation ? I've never head an aws-believer ever mention dedicated servers. Why don't you compare aws to building yo

• ChuckMcM 10y ago
  I suspect it is because "everyone" (which is to abscond with your definition) believes that colocation is an alternative to AWS (well the EC2 part anyway). I would be interested to hear how you seem them as not being comparable. On your definition of "aws-believer" is that someone who feels that AWS is a superior solution to deploying a web facing application in all cases? Does your definition include economics? (like $/month vs request/month vs latency?) Can I assume that you consider comparing AWS to building your own CPU as an apples to oranges comparison? I certainly do, because I define a CPU to be a small component part of a distributed system hosting a web facing application.
  • ddorian43 10y ago
    by "everyone" I mean >90% of comments on this forum comparing aws to an alternative (90% of cases it's straight to colocation) Building your own datacenters is also an alternative to aws-ec2, but you go to that step by step (I think?) (dedicated > colocation > datacenter). In some cases when you have crazy growth you can skip a/some steps (ex: dropbox going from aws to their own datacenter) They don't even compare them in whatever $/request/latency/$metric since they don't even mention them. And dedicated has also many options from low-price+no-support-shitty-network to high price/good-network/support etc.