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This all looks great but one of the primary advantages of DynamoDB is that you don't have to spend resources on maintaining or troubleshooting ec2 instances. W
by jugg1es 8y ago
This all looks great but one of the primary advantages of DynamoDB is that you don't have to spend resources on maintaining or troubleshooting ec2 instances. When you have a large deployment, not having to worry about HA on your data store is hard to beat.
- sheeshkebab 8y agoYou still have to spend a lot of labor/resources maintaining and managing dynamodb. Not managing ec2s but, at scale, it’s not exactly a fire and forget type thing and requires a lot of SRE and devops attention. Also, it sounds like Scilla has a managed solution too, that costs a fraction of dynamodb, at scale. Dynamodb to me is the new generation IMS database from mainframe cobol times - fully proprietary, locked down, runs only on proprietary hardware, serviced by one vendor. It’s only a matter of time before companies using it will be stuck with multimillion $$ yearly bills, if they aren’t already.
- Dunedan 8y ago> You still have to spend a lot of labor/resources maintaining and managing dynamodb. Do you? At least with DynamoDB On-Demand there shouldn't be much maintenance left to do.
- ddorian43 8y agoYou will or you'll pay (a lot) for it.
- jugg1es 8y agoI'm not sure what you mean by having to spend money maintaining DynamoDB. What maintenance are you talking about? You definitely have to spend money designing your application and figuring out how to keep it cost effective, but once you have that set up along with the auto-scale policies, it is pretty much fire and forget.