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My first thought is spaffing huge piles of money up the wall by using expensive stuff like DynamoDB really inappropriately, but I think in general AWS is compli
by YawningAngel 7y ago
My first thought is spaffing huge piles of money up the wall by using expensive stuff like DynamoDB really inappropriately, but I think in general AWS is complicated in a way paying someone to plug in colo servers isn't and thus offers more scope to waste money. For random anecdata purposes, I saved $20k /month turning off unused stuff at my ~$50k /month most recent gig. Now scale that up to $1B /year
- ethbro 7y agoAbsolutely on wasted money and an easier path to financially foot-gunning. But my point was more that managed services do make it harder to technically foot-gun. When there are limited options exposed by an abstraction layer, there are limited mistakes an ignorant user can make.