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There are lots of cases where AWS builds services that are not revolutionary but purely evolutionary. Consider Amazon Redshift, their data warehouse. You would
by maslam 10y ago
There are lots of cases where AWS builds services that are not revolutionary but purely evolutionary. Consider Amazon Redshift, their data warehouse. You would _think_ Redshift, with its poor elasticity and tight coupling of compute and storage would suck compared to BigQuery, which is a truly new way of doing things. However, the combination of "it's just Postgres(-ish)" and rapid feature iteration make it a pretty good system to use. Most importantly, the cost model is very good. TL;DR it really depends on the service.
- yeukhon 10y agoI actually find it interesting you would Redshift as the example to justify evolutionary of AWS service offering, also plus the cost. The cost of running Redshift is very expensive, even with reserved instance.
- maslam 10y ago@yeukhon - for the performance you get, Redshift is quite affordable. Keep in mind it's an always-on data warehouse - there's really no way to make it much cheaper than AWS does because they're incurring compute costs. What are you comparing it to? Hadoop?
- ec109685 10y agoIf you are only querying occasionally BigTable has cost advantages since latent storage cost is much lower.
- boulos 10y agoAmusingly RedShift was licensed: > It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse ParAccel by Actian. so I think it's hard to draw conclusions from it. [0] quote is from the Wikipedia entry (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift)