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0 pointsdotancohen6mo ago0 comments

I run non trivial services on EC2, using that service as a VPS. My deploy script works just as well on provisioned Digital Ocean services and on docker containers using docker-compose.

I do need a human to provision a few servers and configure e.g. load balancing and when to spin up additional servers under load. But that is far less of a PITA than having my systems tied to a specific provider or down whenever a cloud precipitates.

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baby_souffle6mo ago

It's absolutely doable if you design for it.

The moment you choose to use S3 instead of hosting your own object store, though, you either use AWS because S3 and IAM already have you or spend more time on the care and feeding of your storage system as opposed to actually doing the thing you customers are paying you to do.

It's not impossible, just complicated and difficult for any moderately complex architecture.

Tostino6mo ago

There are plenty of compatible S3-like offerings. That's one of the lesser things that tie me to a cloud.

dotancohenOP6mo ago

Even on non-AWS projects, I still use S3. I haven't really explored the other options, but if you have opinions or advice I'd love to hear them.

One thing very important, is that I can authorise specific web clients (users) to access specific resources from S3. Such as a document that he can download, but others with the link should not be able to download.

Thank you!

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zharknado6mo ago

“precipitates” ha! Wonderfully evocative.

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