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Most of the value of AWS in my experience isn’t really the infrastructure services as much as the higher level managed service offerings in databases, rudimenta
by devonkim 8y ago
Most of the value of AWS in my experience isn’t really the infrastructure services as much as the higher level managed service offerings in databases, rudimentary machine learning frameworks, and a decently documented (better than 90%+ of enterprise software) set of APIs for things in general. RDS has its faults but hiring DBAs or deputizing existing engineers to setup backups and upgrades on DBs is not very high business value in itself compared to rolling out new features. Heck, even an API call to simulate failovers is hugely invaluable for enabling developers to not suck at using databases in production.