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not sure how this differs with AWS, you can do more at less cost than Vercel

valbaca 4y ago
I'd say give it a shot. Vercel has a much more reasonable Free Tier, was insanely easy to use and incredibly fast. I had my changes pushed to prod from github in <10 secs I haven't built anything big on Vercel, but from my test drive, I'd be happy to use them in the future, and this is coming from someone who works AT the A in AWS. AWS does NOT make the easy things easy; though you are right, it does make the "more" possible, but it all depends on what you're optimizing.
- eins1234 4y ago
  Reasonable Free Tier, yes, but "call us" Enterprise pricing starts at a team of 11 people, a fact that is hidden deep in their pricing grid behind a tooltip, which I find distasteful. In what world does a 11 person team qualify as an Enterprise? Though pedanticism aside, my problem is more with the opaque pricing than the naming.
akmittal 4y ago
AWS is overwhelming for most of Developers. Also vercel is focusing on ease of deployment for front end, it is also zero config, you can just deploy nextjs, react, svelte, remix apps in matter of minutes. Which is impossible with AWS
- BenoitEssiambre 4y ago
  I've started playing with AWS App Runner (https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/ https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/) which makes things fairly simple. You just point to a github repo, tell it the build command and the run command and it will deploy your project in containers and even load balance and scale up automatically. Now it's not fully baked yet. DNS configuration is broken if you want to use your own domain (see https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/37 https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/37 and https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/65 https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/65 ) but you can get around that by putting cloudFront in front with just a few more clicks (and you get the benefit of having some of your files cached if you want).
- cloudc0de 4y ago
  AWS Amplify Hosting is the direct Vercel competitor and has improved since it's initial launch quite a bit. Also has a decent free tier
leerob 4y ago
AWS offers a set of primitives, not frameworks. These low-level primitives can be combined to build anything you want. Vercel's Build Output API[1] is a level of abstraction higher. Consider Image Optimization. In this post, there's a `/_vercel/image` URL made available to send an image and return it compressed with a format like `.webp`, if possible based on the browser. With AWS, this would be a combination of S3 (store images), Lambda (compute the image transformations), Cloudfront (CDN), and Route53 (DNS). With the Build Output API, the entire infrastructure is defined by a JSON object (similar to Terraform). I do think the AWS CDK and Copilot[2] are making infra-as-code easier, but infra-as-filesystem[3] is an interesting twist. [1]: https://vercel.com/blog/build-output-api https://vercel.com/blog/build-output-api [2]: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192498
- syastrov 4y ago
  Or use imgix for that part
- CSSer 4y ago
  Or you could use AWS Amplify.
- upupandup 4y ago
  didn't you just describe AWS Amplify? It also integrates with Cognito not sure if Vercel offers Auth out of the box. also I'm not sure if I'm alone in this but I set up everything through the web console and then generate CDK or Terraform.

I'd say give it a shot. Vercel has a much more reasonable Free Tier, was insanely easy to use and incredibly fast. I had my changes pushed to prod from github in <10 secs I haven't built anything big on Vercel, but from my test drive, I'd be happy to use them in the future, and this is coming from someone who works AT the A in AWS. AWS does NOT make the easy things easy; though you are right, it does make the "more" possible, but it all depends on what you're optimizing.

eins1234 4y ago
Reasonable Free Tier, yes, but "call us" Enterprise pricing starts at a team of 11 people, a fact that is hidden deep in their pricing grid behind a tooltip, which I find distasteful. In what world does a 11 person team qualify as an Enterprise? Though pedanticism aside, my problem is more with the opaque pricing than the naming.

akmittal 4y ago

AWS is overwhelming for most of Developers. Also vercel is focusing on ease of deployment for front end, it is also zero config, you can just deploy nextjs, react, svelte, remix apps in matter of minutes. Which is impossible with AWS

BenoitEssiambre 4y ago
I've started playing with AWS App Runner (https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/ https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/) which makes things fairly simple. You just point to a github repo, tell it the build command and the run command and it will deploy your project in containers and even load balance and scale up automatically. Now it's not fully baked yet. DNS configuration is broken if you want to use your own domain (see https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/37 https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/37 and https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/65 https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/65 ) but you can get around that by putting cloudFront in front with just a few more clicks (and you get the benefit of having some of your files cached if you want).
cloudc0de 4y ago
AWS Amplify Hosting is the direct Vercel competitor and has improved since it's initial launch quite a bit. Also has a decent free tier

leerob 4y ago

AWS offers a set of primitives, not frameworks. These low-level primitives can be combined to build anything you want. Vercel's Build Output API[1] is a level of abstraction higher. Consider Image Optimization. In this post, there's a `/_vercel/image` URL made available to send an image and return it compressed with a format like `.webp`, if possible based on the browser. With AWS, this would be a combination of S3 (store images), Lambda (compute the image transformations), Cloudfront (CDN), and Route53 (DNS). With the Build Output API, the entire infrastructure is defined by a JSON object (similar to Terraform). I do think the AWS CDK and Copilot[2] are making infra-as-code easier, but infra-as-filesystem[3] is an interesting twist. [1]: https://vercel.com/blog/build-output-api https://vercel.com/blog/build-output-api [2]: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192498

syastrov 4y ago
Or use imgix for that part
CSSer 4y ago
Or you could use AWS Amplify.
upupandup 4y ago
didn't you just describe AWS Amplify? It also integrates with Cognito not sure if Vercel offers Auth out of the box. also I'm not sure if I'm alone in this but I set up everything through the web console and then generate CDK or Terraform.