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TL,DR; According to the author, VPC offers better security because your nodes live inside a non-publicly facing VPN. This also simplifies pre-and-post-deployme
by kgtm 15y ago
TL,DR; According to the author, VPC offers better security because your nodes live inside a non-publicly facing VPN. This also simplifies pre-and-post-deployment processes.
My take from the blog post: VPC is a transition not worth doing, if you are a startup (we are on HN after all), since, and I quote: [it] requires a substantial amount of domain knowledge [and] VPC is far more complicated than EC2. Keep things simple, and stay focused. EC2 is perfectly adequate for most endeavors.
- jvehent 15y agoBig news: you actually need to learn networking if you're going to manage a network. VPC is just basic networking, reinvented by AWS because they screwed up that part real bad in the first EC2 arch. VPC is not complicated, it probably takes half a day to figure it out. And compared to the ridiculous amount of time it takes to setup EC2 in the first place (when you come from classic datacenter), it's a good investment that's not going to show in the budget.