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Good point, it becomes clear that if you are operating at the scale of a large company the large scale and rich ecosystem are important. It was just a bit surpr
by artifaxx 12y ago
Good point, it becomes clear that if you are operating at the scale of a large company the large scale and rich ecosystem are important. It was just a bit surprising to me that for smaller scale instances AWS is so much more expensive. It would seem they should be cheaper due to economies of scale.
- joshpadnick 12y agoAWS is definitely aware that their costs can be prohibitive for brand new startups. Check out AWS Activate[1]. If you can demonstrate that you're a legit startup, there's a decent chance you can get free AWS credits, not to mention free support. [1] http://aws.amazon.com/activate/ http://aws.amazon.com/activate/
- mentat 12y agoGetting the business level support is absolutely necessary if you don't have someone with AWS experience and are doing anything substantially complicated. The free-ish support is, on the whole, pretty abysmal. The availability of solution architect time is not always useful. You ask 3 people and get 3 different answers. I've given some thought to doing consulting around this for equity but haven't figured what that would have to look like. There's a lot of wrong turns one can go down pretty easily. Bottomline, Activate is helpful but not sufficient.
- vidarh 12y agoConsider that whenever you are paying for AWS you are also paying for whatever proportional part of the AWS infrastructure is sitting idle at any one time - Amazon still need to cover those costs - it just get amortised over the paid resource usage.