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> If beating AWS on price is trivial, why is nobody doing that to beat them? They have a huge suite of offerings, good reputation, huge amount of third party t
by serge2k 10y ago
> If beating AWS on price is trivial, why is nobody doing that to beat them?
They have a huge suite of offerings, good reputation, huge amount of third party tooling, and the services themselves are somewhat sticky.
By that I mean, I could probably switch over to your cheaper cloud service. It would mean having my engineers go through and build stuff to fill in the gaps or transition away from things that are very AWS specific.
Or I could just pay a bit more money and keep developing features as AWS isn't too expensive and does what I need.
- vidarh 10y agoI agree that this makes sense for a lot of people. E.g. I have clients that I recommend use AWS simply because hosting is a small cost item for them and it isn't worth their effort to optimise it for cost (at least not until they grow huge) vs. spending effort elsewhere. Moving to cheaper services quickly becomes a big deal for people with low margins and high infrastructure costs, though, where moving to cheaper infrastructure can make the difference between being able to match competitors on price or not. The key is to understand your hosting needs well enough to know whether or not you can afford to build a dependency on AWS specific services.