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AWS is not cheap. AWS is one to two orders of magnitude more expensive than DIY.
by immibis 1y ago
AWS is not cheap. AWS is one to two orders of magnitude more expensive than DIY.
- ranger_danger 1y agoMy $3/mo AWS instance is far cheaper than any DIY solution I could come up with, especially when I have to buy the hardware and supply the power/network/storage/physical space. Not to mention it's not worth my time to DIY something like that in the first place. There can be other valid usecases than your own.
- immibis 1y agoSmall things are cheap, yes, news at 11. But did you compare what your $3-$5 gets at Amazon vs a more traditional provider?
- ranger_danger 1y agoFalse equivalence/moving goalposts IMO... I was only refuting your claim of "AWS is not cheap", as if it's somehow impossible for it to be cheap... which I'm saying isn't the case.
- bravetraveler 1y agoSorry to jump in y'alls convo :) AWS is cheaper than the Cloud we built... I just don't think it's significant. Ours cost more because businesses/governments would pay it, not because it was optimal. Price is beside my original point: Amazon has enjoyed decades for arbitrage. This sounds more accusatory than intended: the 'us-south-1' problem exists because it's allowed/chosen. Created in 2006! Now, to retract that a bit: I could see technical debt/culture making this state of affairs practical, if not inevitable. Correct? No, if I was Papa Bezos I'd be incredibly upset my Supercomputer is so hamstrung. I think even the warehouses were impacted! The real differentiator was policy/procedure. Nobody was allowed to create a service or integration with this kind of blast area. Design principles, to say the least. Fault zones and availability zones exist for a reason beyond capacity, after all.