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0 pointsmekster5y ago0 comments

Why pay premium when there are cheaper cloud alternatives? Just get your team to learn a thing or two than being sold by AWS.

I'd take it most people just feel enthusiastic about technologies they don't even need and being able to run stuff with mouse clicks makes them feel accomplishing.

To me, AWS is just an expensive provider that only makes sense to put backup files because of cheap storage and no incoming bandwidth cost.

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kroolik5y ago

Your post contains two distinctive arguments: paying premium for managed services instead of learning a thing or two, and paying AWS for their services.

Re first argument: I don't know how to implement DDoS protection, neither is my company a DDoS protection shop. Should I learn how to do it myself, or pay CloudFlare to do it for me? What about S3? What about Aurora/Dynamo/SQS? Where is the line between "your company TOTALLY has to do it on its own" vs "pay the people who know how to run X to run it for you"?

Regarding AWS prices: it's not like you are forced to use AWS. Use the cloud your team is most familiar with. I'm not an expert on cloud offerings, yet if your problem is $20k/month and $15k/month infrastracture costs, you might be solving a wrong problem.

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kroolik5y ago

Your post contains two distinctive arguments: paying premium for managed services instead of learning a thing or two, and paying AWS for their services.

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