| ▲ | paxys 13 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Here's the simple thing to know about AWS. They sell two great products (EC2 and S3) below market value so that you get locked in and their sales teams can upsell you on everything else. If you are a customer and are tempted to try out their alphabet soup of managed services because it all seems so convenient – don't. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | danielheath 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> below market value Unless you would like your data to egress from an AWS datacenter, in which case they are a very, very long way above market value. > two great products RDS is also pretty great, and KMS is a pretty good way to store a private key per environment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rafaelmn 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EC2 sold below market rate ? S3 I could argue somehow (unconvincingly). But what's the argument for EC2 ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | hintymad 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lots of comments about EC2's price. My personal experience is that we do not just pay for the computing power of EC2 but the productivity it offers: it's just magical that one can launch an availability group across multiple zones, set up its autoscaling rules, and let it run wild. Netflix used to build its platform on top of EC2s, and the result was that a single engineer can carry a pager for multiple services 24x7, stateful included, and still enjoyed great work-life balance. It's also amazing how hard it is for companies to replicate their own EC2 in their own data centers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hintymad 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Speaking great products, DynamoDB is pretty good too, to the point that there's no open-source equivalent to it yet. Cassandra probably comes the closest, but it does not have true GSIs, no cross-table transactions, no easy and robust CDCs like DynamoDB streams, and its CAS is dog slow. SQS is great too. To many people it's reliable and durable, and implements a pretty robust competitive consumer pattern. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | orf 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SQS, SNS and Lambda are great as well | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | llm_trw 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EC2? It has not been under market value for a decade now. It used to take 12-24 months of on demand pricing to buy the hardware outright in the 00s. Today it's under 6 months for every instance type. With GPU instances being measured in weeks. S3? Laughs in egress costs. AWS considered harmful. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mrklol 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SES is imo their top tier service! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | yazaddaruvala 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotta love Step Functions, Lambda, and also Kinesis Firehose! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | AtlasBarfed 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
... ? Compared to Hetzner? Come on. Amazon just prices S3 and EC2 at not-insane rates because they shadow charge you for I/O and network traffic at 10x a competitive rate, things that people don't actually look at when evaluating cloud providers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||