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The point of moving to AWS is often to benefit from their data centers and reliability promises. So VPC, EC2, IAM, maybe S3 have a clear point. And one small n
by tsimionescu 2y ago
The point of moving to AWS is often to benefit from their data centers and reliability promises. So VPC, EC2, IAM, maybe S3 have a clear point.
And one small note: apart from S3, virtually all AWS services are tied to a VPC, any kind of deployment starts with "ok, in what VPC do you want this resource?".
- immibis 2y agoYou can get 95% of the reliability for 10% of the price at any dedicated hoster. AWS just figured out the magic word "cloud" means they can charge you 10 times the price. At Azure or GCP you pay a similar price but you don't even get the reliability so literally why would you use them? The only reason I see is that "cloud" means you can start instances at any time without a setup fee or contract duration. But with the amount of cost difference, you could have three times your baseline "cloud" load running all the time at a non-cloud hoster, and still save money!