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What a shame. This is "cloud" as it ought to be: be clear about the service you provide, provide it well, no lock in. Simple and matter-of-factly. I just start
by a2800276 3y ago
What a shame. This is "cloud" as it ought to be: be clear about the service you provide, provide it well, no lock in. Simple and matter-of-factly.
I just started evaluating them about a month ago, loved their hosted postgres and a couple of days later the EOL announcement poped up in my dashboard :(
- conradfr 3y agoThe service is good but it was definitely not clear upfront about the postgresql version you were getting when selecting a region / provider.
- isodev 3y agoAbsolutely. I’ve been a customer for many years and it’s always been a pleasure to interact with such a simple, transparent and “to the point” UI. The fact that they are a tiny team also bumps it up the list for me.
- tbarbugli 3y agowell, they shut this down probably because they cannot afford to keep a product that bring little revenue. I never heard of AWS retiring a product (I am excluding ancient stuff like VPC classic and SimpleDB, both had an upgrade path to something superior)
- dtech 3y agoI assume AWS fully automates their stuff so the maintenance is ~0 outside their normal datacenter and SRE stuff which amortizes the total cost to ~0, so why retire a service? Just stop development.
- Arbortheus 3y agoThere’s no such thing as zero cost to development teams. Who patches the security vulnerabilities? Who answers esoteric customer questions for customers with premium support contracts?
- ransom1538 3y ago[flagged]
- isodev 3y agoAWS is Big Tech. It locks you in, and it's not easy to guard your users' privacy against them. Smaller providers (and also local in the case of 84codes) are preferred.
- throwawaysleep 3y agoEvidently not, as few are willing to pay a large premium for them.
- isodev 3y agoEvidently? Clarify please.
- a2800276 3y agoI imagine they meant: evidently not, because ElephantSQL is shutting down their service.
- isodev 3y agoThe post from 84codes clearly states a different motivation. If they want to focus their efforts elsewhere, that’s their decision. One doesn’t need to be “the provider” to count as success. It’s the whole point of staying small to mid-sized.
- zilti 3y agoLarge premium? LOL! It is AWS you pay a large premium for.
- sofixa 3y ago> and it's not easy to guard your users' privacy against them Source? > Smaller providers (and also local in the case of 84codes) are preferred AWS have a reputation and stability to keep because half of the internet, governments, banks, etc. rely on them. If a small provider makes a mistake, or goes bankrupt due to unforseen circumstances, you're left holding the bag on your own.
- eddd-ddde 3y agoAWS can continue to provide you a product that consistently loses money because they have a gazillion million dollars. They have the ability to kill comeptition by losing money until they go broke first.
- riku_iki 3y agoFor AWS such services bring network effect, and pay back in other segments of ecosystem.
- tempnow987 3y agoSimpleDB disappeared off the marketing pages - but I don't think it got shut down in reality until 2020 maybe? It was easily 5+ years after DynamoDB came along. There was definitely a period where there was little SimpleDB availability publicly but on the backend it kept working. Would love it if someone had more of the detailed history.
- ydant 3y agoSimpleDB still works for my company's AWS account. There's been no announcement of a shutdown that I've seen (and I check occasionally since it's almost entirely disappeared from most of AWS's documentation).
- tempnow987 3y agoHaha.. That matches what I experienced. It literally disappeared from everywhere but actually just kept on running.
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- craigkerstiens 3y agoFully agree with this sentiment it's very much our focus and goal at Crunchy Data with one big thing I'd add-great support. I recall seeing them crop up in the early days of building and running Heroku Postgres, they were a very very early managed service provider. To my knowledge they never seemed to grow to massive scale but were a steady business (though I don't know any of the details for sure). That they were still around for over a decade is a testament from a lot of others.