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Re:YC Tech Stacks by sseveran on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:17PM (#12295317)
The value of AWS is all the other services that they offer. While you could assemble them yourself, building on AWS allows you to move really fast and scalable infrastructure.
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Re:YC Tech Stacks by tedmiston on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:09AM (#12295488)
Things like load balancers and database servers especially, though they do charge a pretty penny for the latter.
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Re:YC Tech Stacks by sseveran on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:41PM (#12299582)
I use RDS Postgres and gladly pay for it. Love its snapshotting, backing up and failover.
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