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Until you're spending the salary of a large fraction of your engineers on hosting costs, there are much bigger things to worry about than hosting costs. AWS is
by ummonk 5y ago
Until you're spending the salary of a large fraction of your engineers on hosting costs, there are much bigger things to worry about than hosting costs. AWS is user friendly and a lot of engineers are familiar with it, so developer productivity is strongly in its favor.
Also, you know what you're getting security-wise with AWS, and no one will blame you when your website / service goes down because AWS is down.
- oogetyboogety 5y agoWasn't that like IBM's business motto at some point? No one ever got fired for going with IBM. Then IBM definitely lost a lot of business to cloud modernization. Maybe the next logical step is the cheaper CloudFlare, which another comment mentioned is actually pretty profitable and then I'm sure the next cheaper incumbent will come in with just slightly less trust and reliability.