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Yeah...you're not really building an 'AWS' until you're building a hyperscaler and leveraging massive economies of scale. This is more "we're building a servi
by kjs3 2y ago
Yeah...you're not really building an 'AWS' until you're building a hyperscaler and leveraging massive economies of scale. This is more "we're building a service that addressed local reality with local solutions", and that's a pretty awesome thing just in itself.
- cgcrob 2y ago[flagged]
- unclebucknasty 2y ago>you're not really building an 'AWS' until you're building a hyperscaler AFAICT there's no claim that they're "building an AWS" (or attempting to). The title is "Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud". So, these are alternatives and a skim of the article seems to follow. I think we've been cloud-indoctrinated here (until recently) to believe viability means fullly-scalable cloud infrastructure.
- robertlagrant 2y agoI don't see the real difference between saying this and saying a Raspberry Pi is an alternative to AWS.
- unclebucknasty 2y agoYou're correct that there's an analogy continuum here that starts at "ridiculous" and ends with "nearly indistinguishable". I suppose like many things, it's down to a reasonableness test.
- boesboes 2y agoYou should get your eyes checked...