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It's more complicated than that. Sometimes, the decision is not just in the engineers' hands. eg - our clients (airlines) would very much prefer we use AWS over
by tuananh 7y ago
It's more complicated than that. Sometimes, the decision is not just in the engineers' hands. eg - our clients (airlines) would very much prefer we use AWS over the smaller, lesser known offering.
- thu2111 7y agoWhat justification do the airlines give for placing demands on your own suppliers?
- tuananh 7y agoi'm not familiar with that part. also sale people can make all kind of promises to close the deal.
- tyingq 7y agoIt's pretty common for Fortune 500 type companies to ask for all sorts of intrusive terms they perceive as a benefit to them. Indemnity, long net payment terms, penalties for missed SLA, etc. They could be specifying AWS in this case to reduce latency and/or avoid the internet as a dependency. Maybe the client side is on AWS already, or they already have high bandwidth / dual path via AWS direct connect, and don't wish to do that for a different provider. The reward being that once you're in, they are too big and slow to ever move away from your product.
- karatestomp 7y ago"We want it because it makes our lives (specifically, probably some paperwork) easier. Do you still want our money or not?"