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I am not trying to be sarcastic, I am just tired of some of the AWS fanboi's (not you) who act as if AWS solves all of your problems immediately for $50 a month
by patrickgzill 14y ago
I am not trying to be sarcastic, I am just tired of some of the AWS fanboi's (not you) who act as if AWS solves all of your problems immediately for $50 a month.
There are real costs no matter which way you go.
PS, would be very surprised if you had even 45ms latency between AWS-east in Virginia and any of their facilities on the west coast...
- seldo 14y agoI wasn't taking you as sarcastic, nor was I attempting snark in my reply: there are real costs either way, and it's our current judgement that learning how to do a virtualized, distributed stack would be more expensive than getting AWS to do it for us. (But, if I'm being honest, we haven't done any math) And the < 10ms latency I'm talking about is between zones within us-east; latency to the west coast is a lot worse, but we only have emergency failover capacity in west.
- ghshephard 14y agoMuch of the attraction that I see from people comes from the flexibility. Once you get to any significant size in an organization, it's not unusual for people to have to wait for _months_ to get servers rolled out. The ability to whip out your credit card, and fire up new servers at AWS in minutes, becomes very attractive in that scenario.
- jaytaylor 14y agoGhshephard nailed it, as usual.