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Can't you just pick the product that does what you want? If you need a WAF, use their WAF, if you just need a load balancer, then use an ELB. If you need a data
by Johnny555 10y ago
Can't you just pick the product that does what you want? If you need a WAF, use their WAF, if you just need a load balancer, then use an ELB. If you need a data warehouse, use Redshift, if you just need to make simple queries against data stored in S3, use Athena.
Having a wide range of products at a variety of price points and capabilities sounds better than a "one size fits most" approach.
- hug 10y agoThere are reasons to be alarmed at the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach. Like perhaps you decide to use a product that they're not particularly interested in supporting very well, and a year later they decide to shutter the service which performs a crucial role in your environment... I am not suggesting that Amazon is actually going to do this, but it's certainly more likely than, say, EC2 going away.
- unkoman 10y agoAWS has sunset features before (SimpleDB for example) but only for new customers. Old customers that use the EOL features 1. get a migration path 2. keep the features in their account.
- alexbilbie 10y agoAside from SimpleDB which was replaced by DynamoDB and Elasticache I'm not aware of any withdrawn services in AWS' history
- andrioni 10y agoElasticache is still there, and it is still getting updates and new features: Redis got bumped to 3.2 a few months ago, and they also added managed sharding support.