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Using AWS is not just for its instances. S3 is a big factor. It's hard to replicate the S3 functionality in your own hosting without much more effort and cost
by ww520 15y ago
Using AWS is not just for its instances. S3 is a big factor. It's hard to replicate the S3 functionality in your own hosting without much more effort and cost. Granted that the AWS instances can be used more efficiently.
- Ecio78 15y agocant you just upload to S3 from your own dedicated machines? or it adds too much delay to operations? Author posted that images are first loaded on their system, resized and so on and then loaded on s3, so at least for image upload it shouldnt be such a great problem. disclaimer: i have no smartphone and never used their app :)
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoBesides latency, you don't pay for internal data transfer within AWS services. If you did the image processing on your own machines, you'd be paying for bandwidth every operation; where if you do it in EC2, your only outbound transfer is viewing the images.