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There's another good reason: avoiding AWS sticker shock, which is real. Better to spin up an OpenShift instance and know what's going on with prices. God knows

There's another good reason: avoiding AWS sticker shock, which is real. Better to spin up an OpenShift instance and know what's going on with prices. God knows what gets spent on AWS resources that have been forgotten or, more likely, no one wants to run the risk of turning off. AWS has become very expensive for startups once you're past their short freebie intro phase.

avip 9y ago
Every startup I know got 100-500K$ in aws credits so your "short freebie phase" is dead long in practice.
- avip 9y ago
  [can't edit...] someone asked me on PM how to get your hands on that pile of virtual cash. I'm no expert on that, and likely YMMV, but for us, we basically called account managers in the big 3 (GCP, aws, azure) and went shopping. With some PR visibility (i.e seed, some stupid "innovation reward", I guess any alternative empty proof of existence applies), we got offers (in the 50-500K range). The way I see it, that's the de-facto standard - launch a VC funded startup, and cloud providers will align next your door to shell credits on your head.
  - mrep 9y ago
    Y combinator startup benefits: "We have deals of varying degrees of formality with many companies in the technology world either to give free services or special access to YC-funded startups. Deals range from $500,000 in cloud hosting credits from Microsoft Azure to 60% off Optimizely’s A/B testing plans." [0] Google also has a dedicated page where they partner with a bunch of VC's [1]. [0]: https://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#connections https://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#connections [1]: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
viraptor 9y ago
Why would it be different with OpenShift? Either you know what you're running or you don't. Tagging on AWS gives you per dept/team/app cost split. If you don't use something like that you'll be lost in OpenShift as well...

avip 9y ago

Every startup I know got 100-500K$ in aws credits so your "short freebie phase" is dead long in practice.

avip 9y ago
[can't edit...] someone asked me on PM how to get your hands on that pile of virtual cash. I'm no expert on that, and likely YMMV, but for us, we basically called account managers in the big 3 (GCP, aws, azure) and went shopping. With some PR visibility (i.e seed, some stupid "innovation reward", I guess any alternative empty proof of existence applies), we got offers (in the 50-500K range). The way I see it, that's the de-facto standard - launch a VC funded startup, and cloud providers will align next your door to shell credits on your head.
- mrep 9y ago
  Y combinator startup benefits: "We have deals of varying degrees of formality with many companies in the technology world either to give free services or special access to YC-funded startups. Deals range from $500,000 in cloud hosting credits from Microsoft Azure to 60% off Optimizely’s A/B testing plans." [0] Google also has a dedicated page where they partner with a bunch of VC's [1]. [0]: https://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#connections https://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#connections [1]: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

viraptor 9y ago

Why would it be different with OpenShift? Either you know what you're running or you don't. Tagging on AWS gives you per dept/team/app cost split. If you don't use something like that you'll be lost in OpenShift as well...