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What you're calling "vendor lock-ins" I'm calling "providing sufficient value to justify cost." It's not that migrating out isn't possible, it's that Amazon is
by r3trohack3r 5y ago
What you're calling "vendor lock-ins" I'm calling "providing sufficient value to justify cost."
It's not that migrating out isn't possible, it's that Amazon is providing "Engineering/SiteOps Departments as a Service" at a price that's hard to compete with in house.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoWhat's the newspeak for the high egress fees?
- r3trohack3r 5y agoI'm not sure that's what I was arguing against. From the GP's post - I was trying to say I read this as "the collection of services AWS provides would require several in-house engineering teams to compete with" not "vendor lock-in". A single service is relatively easy to replicate if it is core to your business, but an entire on-demand datacenter w/ abstractions like Time Series databases, pub/sub services, etc. isn't as trivial to do yourself. Many of these services require teams of engineers to manage at scale, and engineers that _understand_ them well. The on-demand service catalog of the cloud provides significant value. It's more than "pub/sub" or "blob storage" as a service. It's an entire engineering organization and data center as a service w/ pre-built architectures for you to start using today.
- whydoyoucare 5y agoI am not sure the size of your company and the budget for in-house prices, but we realized AWS is not just a lock-in, but also a permanent money drain.