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One difference is that AWS etc. can run software on bare metal if they want. (I suspect they are doing just that with their hosted Kafka offering.) Even with th
by senderista 7y ago
One difference is that AWS etc. can run software on bare metal if they want. (I suspect they are doing just that with their hosted Kafka offering.) Even with the new EC2 bare metal instances, I don’t think you could roll your own for a competitive price (IME packet.net is much cheaper than EC2 for on-demand bare metal, with a much better UX).
- _msw_ 7y agoAmazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka runs on EC2. Disclosure: I build EC2.
- solidasparagus 7y agoI would be shocked if any service in AWS was running on bare metal.
- senderista 7y agoYou would be surprised...
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