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The best way to reduce costs as a startup is to not use it in the first place. I know its not popular to say, but both aws and GCS are too expensive for most st
by holoduke 8y ago
The best way to reduce costs as a startup is to not use it in the first place.
I know its not popular to say, but both aws and GCS are too expensive for most startups. Better just use a local decent cloud provider. You can always move to GCS/aws when the time is right.
- mlabouardy 8y agoits expensive if you misuse it, those cloud providers provides services and computing models that cannot be found on low cost providers such Serverless and Containers.
- kakwa_ 8y agoIf you are a startup with a none-Facebook growth (aka most of the startups), what you want to spend money on is functionalities, not spending effort on additional technical constraints because of restricted infrastructure. Basically, AWS (or any cloud provider) is great for young startup with 0 money, medium sized companies who can optimize to some degree and big sized companies too big to organize efficiently the logistic of buying servers and the instrumentation of infrastructure. It leaves the mid sized startups which have an interest of buying their own infra, but migrating away from a cloud provider also have a cost of itself. It's not as clear cut as I am stating, you also have cheaper alternatives than AWS, Azure and GCE. You can go for OVH or DigitalOcean, less possibilities and technical offering, but cheaper prices which can compute with hosting things yourself mid-term.
- mlabouardy 8y agoI agree, most young startup goes with PaaS (Platform as a Service) like Heroku, OVH or even Elasticbeanstalk, even us we started with that and then migrated to IaaS and FaaS.