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You don't have to use AWS' appliance (the NAT GW) to do NAT. You can NAT your traffic yourself from a t2.micro Linux. AWS used to maintain a AMI to do just tha
by Galanwe 3y ago
You don't have to use AWS' appliance (the NAT GW) to do NAT. You can NAT your traffic yourself from a t2.micro Linux.
AWS used to maintain a AMI to do just that, nowadays you have to do it yourself, but it's honestly not much more than adding 2/3 iptables rules.
I find this trade-off to be exactly the reason why AWS is so good even for small startups. You can bootstrap something quickly, though it will be a tad expensive.
And if you need to down your costs later on, you start chasing the quickwins like maintaining your own NAT gateway. The same could apply for all managed services.
Maintaining your own OpenVPN VS AWS VPN.
Maintaining your own Postgres VS RDS.
etc
- benjaminwootton 3y agoThe sweet point should be that the total cost of using the managed services should be less than doing so yourself when you account for manpower. If we have ended up at a place where it’s cheaper to run them yourself on an EC2 box then something has gone awry.
- Galanwe 3y ago"Cheaper" is not the only dimension to consider. Using managed services is also faster, more reliable, and scale better. You cannot just get that for free.