Hey there, (Zsolt Varga here) Yep, we should have pointed out that this has to be done in at the right time. Generally this article was about how we saved $1M

Hey there, (Zsolt Varga here) Yep, we should have pointed out that this has to be done in at the right time. Generally this article was about how we saved $1M expense and we was able to share this saving with our customers. Not an attack on AWS, I still use their platform for my other projects. But to be accurate, this migration happened last year, and now we already doubled our usage and this brings us to $2M / year saving now. I 100% agree with the comments below, use AWS while you are defining your product and growing, Todd (the founder) did this right. Spending days and nights on managing your own infrastructure or paying a devops employee to do it, in the early phase is just pure waste, and takes away focus. But we moved away from AWS at the right time. Also, yes we had to do this to be competitive, as prerendering is a resource heavy service, and if your site is like ProductBoard (awesome tool) which will not consume terabits of traffic or use petabytes of ram, then you can stay on AWS forever and enjoy the benefit of not caring. And what we lost? Minor inconvenience at this point, I cannot just pull up a new database in 10 minutes, but we don't really do that anymore, most of our current projects requires months of research, planning, and delivery. With those time frames we can notify our devops and get everything in place way before we need it. So, keep on using AWS (it rocks!), just be sure to pay attention to the bill, and don't underestimate the cost of the traffic. Have a nice one