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Re:Twitter ‘smytes’ customers by busterarm on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:59AM (#17371735)
Not even eventually. Right now. How many companies out there absolutely depend on all the value add services that AWS provides that are hard to replicate?

Does your business depend on Amazon Transcribe (or any other AWS-only service)? Do you have engineers competent to turn around an equivalent product for you in a short release window? No? (Don't lie to yourself. It's no.) Congratulations, you are now Amazon's bitch.

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Re:Twitter ‘smytes’ customers by noir_lord on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:34AM (#17372909)
Internally we have physical servers, externally we us linode deployed via ansible, we don't rely on any linode specific features (api'snor anything).

I (as the sole programmer) made that decision early on.

AWS is a none starter because of the gradual vendor lockin (also nature of our business means growth/scalability is very easily predicted).

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Re:Twitter ‘smytes’ customers by brazzledazzle on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:37PM (#17375347)
I think people will start feeling the pain when Amazon isn’t printing money anymore and starts looking at winding down less popular/profitable services.
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