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the purpose of not aws is two: - put price/quality pressure on aws - fill weird niches made by regulatory capture and other nonsense not using aws is like no
by nathants 3y ago
the purpose of not aws is two:
- put price/quality pressure on aws
- fill weird niches made by regulatory capture and other nonsense
not using aws is like not using linux. there are valid reasons, but you don’t want any of them.
- aftbit 3y agoWell unless you just want to run your own hardware. That can be orders of magnitude cheaper (business trajectory changing stuff, think offering a free plan vs not) for the right kind of workloads.
- nathants 3y agooptionality. having aws doesn’t mean using it for everything. for most uses cases, netflix model seems like the right one. control plane on cloud, data plane on not cloud. at a minimum you probably want to backup some high value data in s3 unless you have a more durable store somewhere.
- cshokie 3y agoOr your business competes with Amazon and you don’t want to pay a competitor in order to compete with them.