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AWS only provides optionality if you don't get deeply into the AWS services. If you do you find that optionality is absent. A startup I talked to not too long
by foobiekr 9y ago
AWS only provides optionality if you don't get deeply into the AWS services. If you do you find that optionality is absent.
A startup I talked to not too long ago has a revenue of around 1M a month - pretty great. Their Amazon bill is around 1M a month - not so good. Their entire architecture is one AWS service strung into another - no optionality at all.
- breischl 9y agoI think you're talking about a different kind of optionality than the parent post. That was talking about option to expand/contract capacity, change infrastructure, or all the usual "elasticity" that they tout. You're talking about vendor lock-in. Which is a totally valid point and something to be aware of, but basically orthogonal.