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Accounting: Hardware and software acquisition is very different at an accounting level in large orgs, and come from different budgets. Licensing and support can
by unethical_ban 4y ago
Accounting: Hardware and software acquisition is very different at an accounting level in large orgs, and come from different budgets. Licensing and support can be easier to procure and plan for than hardware.
APIs/RBAC: Cloud infrastructure-as-code for block storage, object storage, DB, network, VM and serverless with the same security policy language accessible via HTTP is really incredible. I wish there were an open-source cloud equivalent, but I don't know of one that can do 20% of what AWS can do.
- bob1029 4y ago> I don't know of one that can do 20% of what AWS can do. We only use a few AWS products: Route53, EC2, VPC, EBS, and S3/Glacier. This feels like <20% of what AWS can do today. Are these use cases not yet covered? I'd be OK with Route53 not being in the box, but surely we have VMs, storage and backups sorted by now, right?
- mwcampbell 4y agoHow do you deploy your applications onto your EC2 instances? Do you create application-specific AMIs, use something like Ansible, something Windows-specific like WinRM, run your own container setup on EC2, or something else?
- bob1029 4y agoOur software has integral CI/CD capabilities. All built in-house. Once our services are installed on a machine, they can be upgraded from a centralized system. First time setup is manual, but it could be automated if we got bored of the task. The binary distribution requires zero dependencies on the machine and brings its own database with it so bootstrapping is very easy.