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Nobody is saying you have to build everything yourself. But you can just use cloud providers for their hardware and not needlessly tie yourself to their softwa
by threeseed 6y ago
Nobody is saying you have to build everything yourself.
But you can just use cloud providers for their hardware and not needlessly tie yourself to their software. For example you can use a managed K8s solution like EKS but then have all of your monitoring, logging, databases etc all be self-hosted.
And it's not just about cost but also about being able to take advantage of other cloud provider's unique strengths or being truly resilient to outages.
- throwaway894345 6y agoThe same arguments apply to hardware and software. Cloud providers’ core competency is cloud infrastructure and services and they have the scale to economize their offerings. Your business very likely can’t compete with them, so to the extent that you’re owning things that cloud providers could sell you, you’re throwing away money and that figure very likely dwarfs the risk adjusted cost of maybe having to migrate to another provider one day. (Of course, there are services that are overpriced here and there, but the general principle holds).
- freehunter 6y ago> being able to take advantage of other cloud provider's unique strengths If you’re limiting yourself to using only easily portable services, you’re not going to be taking advantage of any cloud provider’s unique strengths anyway. So you might as well just pick one.