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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by avitzurel on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:40PM (#15802066)
I still think there is HUGE room for a service company that will wrap Amazon services in an economic way.

The value proposition here is incredible, you can save so much money for companies.

At my previous company, I changed one of the data ingestion architecture and saved 250,000$ in YEARLY AWS bill.

Of course, there are many problems with this, but I still think there is room for this. Right now, this knowledge is in silos in companies. Lots of companies should benefit from this.

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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by schickling on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:16PM (#15802383)
Thanks a great point, avitzurel! This will be exactly one of the core offerings what we're currently working on at Graphcool.

AWS provides great building blocks but using them efficiently is a major challenge (especially for smaller teams). Like in your case, there is an enormous potential in better resource utilization!

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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by foota on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:21PM (#15803651)
Interesting, building graphql wrappers to Amazon apis, you mean?
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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by k__ on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @03:58AM (#15805569)
Is this even possible?

I mean most of these APIs are more like RPC than REST.

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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by foota on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:15AM (#15805612)
If you had a heavy server then sure it is, making a nice enough wrapper might be a bit of a pain though.
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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by scoot on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:52PM (#15803198)
Cloud brokerage? The key is that they don't just wrap Amazon, but rather multiple cloud providers, and offer some degree of abstraction to enable multi-cloud architectures.
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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by avitzurel on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:00PM (#15803245)
I am not talking about reselling or just wrapping it in a different package. My point is that a lot of companies are over paying Amazon by a lot. There is room to improve this.

This is a classic service company, but the service it provides can be quantified and measured in a great way

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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by scoot on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:08PM (#15809219)
That is typically part of the cloud brokerage value add.
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Re:AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and o... by stock_toaster on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @04:52AM (#15805731)
Doesn't cloudability help optimize cloud usage?
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