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What was your win that you don't regret the move to AWS? From what you described it sounds very expensive (and requires another full time employee!) with no ups
by positr0n 10y ago
What was your win that you don't regret the move to AWS? From what you described it sounds very expensive (and requires another full time employee!) with no upside.
Not doubting your decision, just curious for more info.
- busterarm 10y agoThey're moving from Rackspace. It was already expensive.
- StanAngeloff 10y agoFair question. Before moving to AWS we were running our own infrastructure on Rackspace and a lot of it was dedicated hardware, not cloud. That was expensive. Fanatical support by RS also dropped dramatically in quality, taking days to resolve issues. AWS has a lot of redundancy baked in. The notion of "replace, don't fix" also made our codebase more resilient to failure. This is also true for most cloud suppliers. With AWS we don't need a PostgreSQL admin, it's managed. Redis is managed. Storage is cheap and can be replicated across the globe. So far we've reaped all the benefits without a devops person in-house.