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My firm belief after building a service at scale (tens of millions of end users, > 100K tps) is that AWS is unbeatable. We don’t even think about building our o
by ttul 2y ago
My firm belief after building a service at scale (tens of millions of end users, > 100K tps) is that AWS is unbeatable. We don’t even think about building our own infrastructure. There’s no way we could ever make it reliable enough, secure enough, and future-proof enough to ever pay back the cost difference.
Something people neglect to mention when they tout their home grown cloud is that AWS spends significant cycles constantly eliminating technical debt that would absolutely destroy most companies - even ones with billion dollar services of their own. The things you rely on are constantly evolving and changing. It’s hard enough to keep up at the high level of a SaaS built on top of someone else’s bulletproof cloud. But imagine also having to keep up with the low level stuff like networking and storage tech?
No thanks.
- watsocd 2y ago...and power, backup power, HVAC, physical security...
- balex 2y agoOr buy colo space and they do it for you. It's not all cloud vs owning a datacenter - There's a thousand shades of ltgrey
- balex 2y agoI've done it. It's nowhere as complicated as you make it seem. It definitely doesn't kill - no more than failing to manage your software tech debt. In fact, the latter is both harder keep up with and more risky, because it changes faster than the low level stuff, to support business needs. With the cloud you have IT/DevOps deal only with scaling the software components of the infra. When doing on-prem they take on the physical layer as well. Do you have enough trust in them to scale the physical part where needed?