Re:A million-dollar engineering problem
by ilaksh on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:38AM
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> simply not using AWS is a competitive advantage.
The way you wrote your comment about using a dedicated server implies that there are no other viable cloud providers besides AWS. That is the problem, people do not know or do not acknowledge the existence of a number of other cloud/VPS providers that, in most cases, would work perfectly fine for their startup, and be a massively better value.
Such as Digital Ocean, Linode, or many small relatively less well-known providers that are perfectly fine like UltraVPS etc.
Sure, some few people do actually need DynamoDB or some other ultra-scaling AWS service, but people who just need VPSs can get a much better deal elsewhere.
The way you wrote your comment about using a dedicated server implies that there are no other viable cloud providers besides AWS. That is the problem, people do not know or do not acknowledge the existence of a number of other cloud/VPS providers that, in most cases, would work perfectly fine for their startup, and be a massively better value.
Such as Digital Ocean, Linode, or many small relatively less well-known providers that are perfectly fine like UltraVPS etc.
Sure, some few people do actually need DynamoDB or some other ultra-scaling AWS service, but people who just need VPSs can get a much better deal elsewhere.