Ah! Yeah, most people think Amazon the store. They have no clue as to what AWS is up to, probably don’t know it’s a thing.
If you’re not a major player with major scaling needs, can’t see why people stick with AWS. Our spend at my last job was $6 million a year, with an M. Fuck me. Give me $1 million and I could replicate our infra and be just as reliable. And much of that would be a 1-time cost.
Tiny example; I’m paying $15mo. for a LightSail instance to run my PiHole. Why?! Been too lazy to grab a Raspberry Pi out of my box and fire it up. $180 bucks a year and I already have the hardware to run it reliably and locally.
Ah! Yeah, most people think Amazon the store. They have no clue as to what AWS is up to, probably don’t know it’s a thing.
If you’re not a major player with major scaling needs, can’t see why people stick with AWS. Our spend at my last job was $6 million a year, with an M. Fuck me. Give me $1 million and I could replicate our infra and be just as reliable. And much of that would be a 1-time cost.
Tiny example; I’m paying $15mo. for a LightSail instance to run my PiHole. Why?! Been too lazy to grab a Raspberry Pi out of my box and fire it up. $180 bucks a year and I already have the hardware to run it reliably and locally.
uses AWS instead of a raspberry pi
I think you see exactly why people use AWS.
Signed up to learn because my company was heavily invested in AWS and I had buckets of money. That’s why.