Re:AWS services explained in one line each
by Spooky23 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:35AM
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AWS (or GCP or Azure or ...) value proposition depends on you.
For a small/startup, the ability to execute quickly without sinking capital into a product that will likely pivot anyway is a superpower.
When you get bigger, stuff gets dicey. Paying a premium for a "X as a Service" made sense when you had no people, but at some point the cost structure may not make sense or your needs are at odds with how the service delivery works.
When you work for a big company or government agency, things change again -- you don't hire a database guy for a project, you have a project team that builds stuff, and an ops team that exerts the minimum viable effort to keep your stuff running or an outsourced ops team that does the same, but worse. At that point, you start looking at how much it costs to pay AWS to provide and SLA vs hiring more competent (ie. more $$$) ops people to keep it running.
The long and short of it is that AWS is in a position to rake in cash up and down the spectrum -- all they need to do is be competent, which they are very good at.
For a small/startup, the ability to execute quickly without sinking capital into a product that will likely pivot anyway is a superpower.
When you get bigger, stuff gets dicey. Paying a premium for a "X as a Service" made sense when you had no people, but at some point the cost structure may not make sense or your needs are at odds with how the service delivery works.
When you work for a big company or government agency, things change again -- you don't hire a database guy for a project, you have a project team that builds stuff, and an ops team that exerts the minimum viable effort to keep your stuff running or an outsourced ops team that does the same, but worse. At that point, you start looking at how much it costs to pay AWS to provide and SLA vs hiring more competent (ie. more $$$) ops people to keep it running.
The long and short of it is that AWS is in a position to rake in cash up and down the spectrum -- all they need to do is be competent, which they are very good at.