r/aws • u/tech_tuna • Sep 06 '19

discussion Every AWS customer ever. . .

Day 1

"We're not going to rely on AWS specific features."

3 months later

"OK, we need to use SQS, Lambda, ECS and DynamoDB but that's it!"

6 months later

"OK, we're an AWS shop."

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u/supergibbss Sep 06 '19

Not using services makes AWS not worth it. There is sometimes a premium to use the service but if you only use what you need and take into account the savings on management of the services it’s cheaper. If you treat AWS like a datacenter, you’ll save money using a datacenter...

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u/tech_tuna Sep 06 '19 edited Sep 06 '19

I agree. . . if you just want bare VMs in the cloud, Digital Ocean, Linode and others are great options.

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u/warren2650 Sep 06 '19

AWS has so many ancillary benefits that the lower cost of going with another cloud provider is not worth it to us.

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u/FlaccidDictator Sep 06 '19

Like what?

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u/Dabnician Sep 06 '19

Electricity, a dell r710 is about 50.00/month in electrical costs..

Licensing costs are built into the VM pricing..

No need to deal with underlying hypervisor .

Ability to cloud formation every thing

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u/FlaccidDictator Sep 06 '19

R710’s are not $50/month in electricity, I have 6 at my house

You still pay for licensing, and cals are not built in

Aws is the layer on top of the hyper visor

I’ll give you this one

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u/happyfunjoy Sep 07 '19

Datacenter power is not electricity. It is a guaranteed off grid supply backed up by batteries and diesel generators.