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For those of you saying, "just use EC2 like any other VPS, it's not that complicated," you're missing the point. You can find better-performing VPS offerings fo
by mwpmaybe 10y ago
For those of you saying, "just use EC2 like any other VPS, it's not that complicated," you're missing the point. You can find better-performing VPS offerings for the same money at other providers. AWS isn't the best option if that's all you're looking for.
For those of you saying, "it makes getting started dead simple and gives you room to grow," you're also missing the point. Something like Heroku or LSQ is probably a better option for 90% of such use cases.
For those of you saying, "oh, just use Amazon ABC for x feature, DEF for y, GHI for z, etc. and tie it all together with Amazon foo," you're also missing the point. Yes, that's the proper way to use AWS, but it requires very specific (i.e. not common Linux sysadmin) knowledge that early-stage startups may not possess and may not have the resources to acquire. This is the main takeaway from the article that I'm not sure many folks actually read...