Comments like this are so exaggerated that they risk moving the goodwill needle back to where it was before. Hetzner offers no service that is similar to DynamoDB, IAM or Lambda. If you are going to praise Hetzner as a valid alternative during a DynamoDB outage caused by DNS configuration, you would need to a) argue that Hetzner is a better option regarding DNS outages, b) Hetzner is a preferable option for those who use serverless offers.
I say this as a long-time Hetzner user. Herzner is indeed cheaper, but don't pretend that Herzner let's you click your way into a highly-availale nosql data store. You need non-trivial levels of you're ow work to develop, deploy, and maintain such a service.
Plenty of heavy traffic, high redundancy applications exist without the need for AWS (or any other cloud providers) overpriced "bespoke" systems.
At some point in the scaling journey bare metal might be the right choice, but I get the feeling a lot of people here trivialize it.
If you're doing it yourself, learn Ansible, you'll do it once and be set forever.
You do not need "managed" database services. A managed database is no different from apt install postgesql followed by a scheduled backup.
It genuinely is trivial, people seem to have this impression theres some sort of unique special sauce going on at AWS when there really isn't.
I think you don't even understand the issue you are commenting on. It's irrelevant if you are Netflix or some guy playing with a tutorial. One of the key traits of serverless offerings is how it eliminates the need to manage and maintain a service or even worry about you have enough computational resources. You click a button to provision everything, you configure your clients to consume that service, and you are done.
If you stop to think about the amount of work you need to invest to even arrive at a point where you can actually point a client at a service, you'll be looking at what the value of serverless offerings.
Ironically, it's the likes of Netflix who can put together a case against using serverless offerings. They can afford to have their own teams managing their own platform services with the service levels they are willing to afford. For everyone else, unless you are in the business of managing and tuning databases or you are heavily motivated to save pocket change on a cloud provider bill, the decision process is neither that clear not favours running your own services.
And almost all of them need a database, a load balancer, maybe some sort of cache. AWS has got you covered.
Maybe some of them need some async periodic reporting tasks. Or to store massive files or datasets and do analysis on them. Or transcode video. Or transform images. Or run another type of database for a third party piece of software. Or run a queue for something. Or capture logs or metrics.
And on and on and and on. AWS has got you covered.
This is Excel all over again. "Excel is too complex and has too many features, nobody needs more than 20% of Excel. It's just that everyone needs a different 20%".
I think a few people who claim to be in devops could do with learning the basics about how things like Ansible can help them as there's a fair few people who seem to be under the impression AWS is the only, and the best option, which unless you're FAANG really is rarely the case.
The idea you can click your way to a highly available, production configured anything in AWS - especially involving Dynamo, IAM and Lambda - is something I've only heard from people who've done AWS quickstarts but never run anything at scale in AWS.
Of course nobody else offers AWS products, but people use AWS for their solutions to compute problems and it can be easy to forget virtually all other providers offer solutions to all the same problems.
With some services I'd agree with you, but DynamoDB and Lambda are easily two of their 'simplest' to configure and understand services, and two of the ones that scale the easiest. IAM roles can be decently complicated, but that's really up to the user. If it's just 'let the Lambda talk to the table' it's simple enough.
S3/SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB are the services that I'd consider the 'barebones' of the cloud. If you don't have all those, you're not a cloud provider, your just another server vendor.
Not if you want to build something production ready. Even a simple thing like say static IP ingress for the Lambda is very complicated. The only AWS way you can do this is by using Global Accelerator -> Application Load Balancer -> VPC Endpoint -> API Gateway -> Lambda !!.
There are so many limits for everything that is very hard to run production workloads without painful time wasted in re-architecture around them and the support teams are close to useless to raise any limits.
Just in the last few months, I have hit limits on CloudFormation stack size, ALB rules, API gateway custom domains, Parameter Store size limits and on and on.
That is not even touching on the laughably basic tooling both SAM and CDK provides for local development if you want to work with Lambda.
Sure Firecracker is great, and the cold starts are not bad, and there isn't anybody even close on the cloud. Azure functions is unspeakably horrible, Cloud Run is just meh. Most Open Source stacks are either super complex like knative or just quite hard to get the same cold start performance.
We are stuck with AWS Lambda with nothing better yes, but oh so many times I have come close to just giving up and migrate to knative despite the complexity and performance hit.
We agree, but also, I feel like you're missing my point: "let the Lambda talk to the table" is what quickstarts produce. To make a lambda talk to a table at scale in production, you'll want to setup your alerting and monitoring to notify you when you're getting close to your service limits.
If you're not hitting service limits/quotas, you're not running even close to running at scale.
I'll bite. Explain exactly what work you think you need to do to get your pick of service running on Hetnzer to have equivalent fault-tolerance to, say, a DynamoDB Global Table created with the defaults.
The key thing you should ask yourself: do you need DynamoDB or Lambda? Like "need need" or "my resume needs Lambda".
If you read the message you're replying to, you will notice that I singled out IAM, Lambda, and DynamoDB because those services were affected by the outage.
If Hetzner is pushed as a better or even relevant alternative, you need to be able to explain exactly what you are hoping to say to Lambda/IAM/DynamoDB users to convince them that they would do better if they used Hetzner instead.
Making up conspiracy theories over CVs doesn't cut it. Either you know anything about the topic and you actually are able to support this idea, or you're an eternal September admission whose only contribution is noise and memes.
What is it?
You will in both cases need specialized people.
Maybe not click, but Scylla’s install script [0] doesn’t seem overly complicated.
0: https://docs.scylladb.com/manual/stable/getting-started/inst...
