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What makes this specifically an alternative to AWS? With name calling them I would expect some sort of compatibility with APIs etc? Else I don't see how its any
by breakfastduck 5y ago
What makes this specifically an alternative to AWS? With name calling them I would expect some sort of compatibility with APIs etc? Else I don't see how its anything other than 'a cloud provider'.
- mrweasel 5y agoI think they misunderstand what AWS does to be honest. From the GitHub page: > M3O is built on existing public cloud infrastructure using managed kubernetes along with our own infrastructure automation So apparently you can run M3O on AWS? Except it's a bit unclear if you can actually run M3O on your own hardware at all. But part of AWS is also managed Kubernetes, so can you run Kubernetes on M3O on Kubernetes? At interesting as this looks, it's mislabeled.
- no_circuit 5y agoM3O seems to be more like an API aggregator with its core available as open source. Not an AWS alternative at all. Ultimately it looks like it is hosted on DigitalOcean if you let them run it for you: https://github.com/m3o/platform/blob/39b5d04a933ae3b63490081989f5ef3682edb132/postgres/index.ts#L16 https://github.com/m3o/platform/blob/39b5d04a933ae3b63490081... for example. If it is meant to be an AWS alternative, then it will grow as big and complex as AWS if it gets popular and used by many. Some of the API-wrapped services require you to get separate accounts for them like weather, sms, email, etc. Don't see a value unless they have multiple providers for each service to pick from. And then you may be in the situation of wanting a feature available for only one of the providers... in which case you'll end up having them to wait to support the feature, or support tacking on info to API calls not unlike Kubernetes metadata annotations. Or in the UI world waiting on features being added to a cross-platform API.