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About IAM... I worked with that a LOT a couple of years ago. It's interesting but quite the rabbit hole of configurations and permissions. I used to be an AWS
by alecco 12y ago
About IAM... I worked with that a LOT a couple of years ago. It's interesting but quite the rabbit hole of configurations and permissions.
I used to be an AWS fanatic and got burned. Unless you need to scale up on the spot (and have the time to code management of that) it's a huge waste of time for no good price. EC2 instances have dismal performance.
Just get decent servers somewhere. For most scenarios it's hard to max out a server nowadays, if you program decently. You have to do that for AWS 10x anyways, IMHE. The cloud is a black hole of developer time and problems.
On top of that it's stupid to put data in US when you are a foreign company, you are open game for 3 letter agencies no questions asked.
- aceperry 12y agoI really have to wonder about the amount of time to setup your own servers. I like to setup and tweak hardware for fun. But the time and starting costs seems way too much compared to spinning up a few instances to get something going quickly. Looking around here, San Francisco bay area, I can't find any way to host a server as inexpensively and as quickly as I can on the cloud. Plus there are lots of alternatives to AWS which promise better performance. BTW, tweaking around with servers can also be a major time sink.
- alecco 12y agoI mean dedicated servers. Usually the provider installs the OS for you and then you take over.