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> Amazon updates their severs on your behalf. No, they don't, unless I am very misinformed about how Amazon VM images work. If I fire up a Debian AMI, it'll up
by gwern 5y ago
> Amazon updates their severs on your behalf.
No, they don't, unless I am very misinformed about how Amazon VM images work. If I fire up a Debian AMI, it'll update itself, or not. (How would Amazon 'update it on my behalf'? What if it needs a reboot?)
- wil421 5y agoThe original article is taking about using Amazon CDN not a VM. When you use this hosting type style you are paying someone else to manage the underlying servers. Same with the people who use S3 or Wordpress or whatever namecheap/godaddy provides for static sites. That’s one of the reasons a VM can be $5 vs a CDN at $50 a month.