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I'm not so sure about the cheaper at scale. Renting is usually more expensive than owning. The larger you get, the more expensive renting is compared to owning
by ReflectedImage 4y ago
I'm not so sure about the cheaper at scale.
Renting is usually more expensive than owning. The larger you get, the more expensive renting is compared to owning.
- lokedhs 4y agoThe best use cause is a system where you have vast spikes in compute requirements on rare occasions. You can then use AWS to get those resources for limited period of time. For this user case, it actually works pretty well. For anything else, there are always going to be cheaper and better solutions.
- CuriousCosmic 4y agoAWS fits the niche of "holy fuck my site is blowing up and I don't want it to crumble while I onboard new users or some event is going on". You probably shouldn't use it for day to day ops but it's a really good spillway for extremely temporary & particularly for unexpected spikes of traffic. Of course you could argue that AWS is particularly bad but I think this applies to most non-bare-metal instance cloud services.