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> It may take a generation or so to get there but more and more the next crop of startups, etc are building on things like Fly instead of AWS and friends. I'm
by alpha_squared 3y ago
> It may take a generation or so to get there but more and more the next crop of startups, etc are building on things like Fly instead of AWS and friends.
I'm currently at a startup that started on Aptible a few years ago because there was a lack of expertise in systems development. We're now in the process of migrating to AWS natively because of cost savings (it's why I was hired). Aptible is costing us 3-4x what native AWS will. Yes, we're incurring some operational overhead, but the automation and tooling for managing infra is reasonably mature (Terragrunt & Terraform aren't perfect, but they work well enough).
Ultimately, startups may start with higher-level cloud providers, but they'll eventually migrate to lower-level providers eventually. At the higher end of the growth curve, companies likely wind up getting back to on-prem in some way.