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The author touched on this, you can use cloud services without the complexity and billing nightmare that is AWS. It's not AWS vs DIY. >Is it actually good as d
by treesknees 5y ago
The author touched on this, you can use cloud services without the complexity and billing nightmare that is AWS. It's not AWS vs DIY.
>Is it actually good as default choice to host a software system of any scale? Let us go through some arguments against going all-in with AWS and why many companies and individual side-project developers might be better off using something else.
To be clear, the author is suggesting that AWS doesn't need to be your first choice in smaller setups and side projects. I don't think they're intending to say people shouldn't use AWS under any circumstance.
There are plenty of smaller cloud service providers that can offer similar functionality to AWS that probably make more sense for smaller-scale uses. I personally love Linode, and you can definitely pull together their various services to build something without doing it from the ground up on VMs.
- fdgsdfogijq 5y agoMaybe, but I'll just say again, after a few years of day in and out AWS development, I can build a full blown website, with queues, microservices, RDS, react app, monitoring, alarms, logs, authentication, in a few weeks. Everything is rock solid, done by the book, and CHEAP. I think you are underestimating the power of this
- jjeaff 5y agoI can deploy most all of those services to my k3s cluster just as quickly using their respective helm charts.
- zmmmmm 5y agoI guess this sounds dismissive, but it just doesn't sound that impressive. Anybody can do that on any cloud provider in a mostly vendor agnostic way with some docker-compose or kubernetes yamls / terraform scripts. I think you've lost touch with where the non-AWS world is up to and are assuming it's still where it was in 2012. It's not.