A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS

Re:A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS by late2part on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:37AM (#10887979)

Absolutely. Amazon is selling magic beans[0], quite often. They have lots of tools that they convince new engineers are the best. But quite often, if not always, the existing FOSS tools (upon which most of AWS is built and from whence they came) offer superior performance at a far better price point for most scale.

In tribute to the Dead Milkmen, in case you want to sue me, I'm talking about this book - http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Beans-Nutrient-Rich-Disease-Figh...

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS by UK-AL on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:42AM (#10888009)

I think AWS doesn't go for "superior performance at a far better price point for most scale". They go for, our solutions are a click away, and take far less time to setup then rolling your own. You know because engineer costs are the biggest cost component really.

Once your at a large enough scale, then yes engineer costs become a smaller component and becomes worth it.

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS by late2part on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:44AM (#10888027)

Correct. But I believe they sell and market it this way. Their best value is for companies that want burstability, convenience and/or have dysfunctional organizations that have slow internal expensive bureaucracy.

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