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The thing is that if you don't use any of the proprietary services offered by the bigger players they look at lot less appealing. AWS with just EC2 is one expen
by heipei 6y ago
The thing is that if you don't use any of the proprietary services offered by the bigger players they look at lot less appealing. AWS with just EC2 is one expensive-ass server provider with murderous rates for egress traffic.
- cogman10 6y agoReally depends on what you are trying to do. I work in a company that is currently trying to move over to AWS from on prem servers. Why? Not for AWS proprietary software. That's completely an afterthought (In fact, the first round is likely going to be those expensive ass EC2 instances). The real reason we are looking at moving to AWS is because they have data centers across the globe and we don't. So even though EC2 is expensive, it's far less expensive than trying to navigate the waters of setting up a datacenter in France, china, and India.