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What cloud provider is better than AWS?
by influx 5y ago
What cloud provider is better than AWS?
- jokethrowaway 5y agoIf you ask me, digital ocean: top notch UX, good performance, good offering of services (k8s, load balancing, managed databases). A reasonable and nice service. I use it for some small businesses of mine but I wouldn't use it for a medium company. I would just get some servers from smaller provider in different data centers and deploy whatever I need. AWS, was definitely the service that convinced everyone they needed the cloud. Most of the companies I've seen move to aws are just wasting money, don't need the scalability and are massively over-provisioned. A few unicorns needs the cloud's powers to scale massively now - and, given how much it costs, they'll end up rewriting it anyway to save hundreds of millions a few years down the line.
- dafelst 5y agoBetter than AWS at what? Many are better than AWS in parts of their business - Google's Kubernetes offerings are far better than AWS's overall, Azure beats the pants of AWS in Windows hosting, Active Directory hosting, Confluent provides a better Kafka offering, Snowflake shits all over Redshift and Aurora (at least for OLAP) etc. That said, AWS is solid and best in class in many areas, and to paraphrase the old saying: "no one ever got fired for choosing AWS"
- ipaddr 5y agoBy price? All of them