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One powerful reason to use aws is autoscaling. Everything else is bs.
by yrgulation 4y ago
One powerful reason to use aws is autoscaling. Everything else is bs.
- DeathArrow 4y agoBut you can use your own hardware for most of the traffic and use AWS when you have spikes.
- redbar0n 4y agoHow would you go about doing that?
- ckdarby 4y agoReally basic version, K8s cluster with the fronting off of AWS where AWS compute joins the cluster as part of the scaling portion. Can also use fancier concepts like tiered offloading on your non-AWS to S3 if you exceed say the bare metal disks because of some giant wave of ingestion. Apache Pulsar has that built in.
- fragmede 4y agoAn ALB fronting your service pointing to a service pool that has only your hardware at idle. In the event of a sudden growth of popularity, add AWS hosted workers to that pool to spread the load.
- mekster 4y agoDisk and snapshot costs aren't bad either which leaves me to use AWS as only a backup solution as it imposes no outbound traffic.