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> I don’t think this is true at all. AWS has a lot more in an org than “the bill is smaller.” The bill is not only astronomically high but it's also unpredict

by fivea 5y ago

> I don’t think this is true at all. AWS has a lot more in an org than “the bill is smaller.” The bill is not only astronomically high but it's also unpredictable and uncontrollable. Which added valued do you believe justifies this? Meanwhile, keep in mind that the likes of Dropbox gave AWS a try but in the end learned from their experience and opted to migrate out after only 5 years. > There’s a restrictive factor when hiring if you move away from Google Cloud,Azure, and AWS. I disagree, considering that in AWS you either run vanilla VMs from EC2, or containerized solutions in ECS/EKS. Either way you are already better off using either your local VMs or your company's kubernetes deployment.

marcinzm 5y ago
>The bill is not only astronomically high but it's also unpredictable and uncontrollable. If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored. >Meanwhile, keep in mind that the likes of Dropbox gave AWS a try but in the end learned from their experience and opted to migrate out after only 5 years. Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do. As you can tell by the massive growth of Azure many large enterprise companies definitely see the value despite already have their own datacenters.
- fivea 5y ago
  > If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored. This is the very first time I hear anyone describe AWS services as "fairly predictable and well monitored", because there is simply no such thing. There are professional services being sold at a premium whose value proposition is to make sense of AWS billing and reign it in. With AWS, your company simply sets a budget with a significant slack and hope for the best. > Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do. Not true. Dropbox is memorable because it was depicted as a poster child of AWS, which ultimately found out it was not worth it at all. And Dropbox is not alone. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/03/16/moving-away-from-aws-cloud-dropbox-isnt-an-anomaly-and-heres-why https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/03/16/movi... https://www.uscloud.com/blog/3-reasons-33-companies-ditching-aws-azure/ https://www.uscloud.com/blog/3-reasons-33-companies-ditching...

by fivea 5y ago

marcinzm 5y ago

>The bill is not only astronomically high but it's also unpredictable and uncontrollable. If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored. >Meanwhile, keep in mind that the likes of Dropbox gave AWS a try but in the end learned from their experience and opted to migrate out after only 5 years. Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do. As you can tell by the massive growth of Azure many large enterprise companies definitely see the value despite already have their own datacenters.

fivea 5y ago
> If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored. This is the very first time I hear anyone describe AWS services as "fairly predictable and well monitored", because there is simply no such thing. There are professional services being sold at a premium whose value proposition is to make sense of AWS billing and reign it in. With AWS, your company simply sets a budget with a significant slack and hope for the best. > Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do. Not true. Dropbox is memorable because it was depicted as a poster child of AWS, which ultimately found out it was not worth it at all. And Dropbox is not alone. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/03/16/moving-away-from-aws-cloud-dropbox-isnt-an-anomaly-and-heres-why https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/03/16/movi... https://www.uscloud.com/blog/3-reasons-33-companies-ditching-aws-azure/ https://www.uscloud.com/blog/3-reasons-33-companies-ditching...