How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by charlesdm on Sunday June 28, 2020 @05:01AM (#23667578)

I'm not an expert on AWS, but can't you use all those services without AWS?

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by antonvs on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:52AM (#23668684)

If you mean can you use S3 and Route53 etc. while hosting your servers somewhere other than AWS, absolutely - people do that all the time.

However in the Route53 case there are a few automatic integrations that only work with other AWS services. Not that big a deal though.

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by setr on Sunday June 28, 2020 @05:05AM (#23667600)

I'm not sure whether you're confusing AWS for some specific component of AWS, or whether you're just stating that competitors exist for those techs

But for the former: AWS is a whole suite of tools -- the specified technologies (cloudfront, S3, etc) are individual (and mostly decoupled) tools within that suite

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by cs02rm0 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:33AM (#23668113)

One of my many AWS pet hates is that they have a service called Amazon WorkSpaces, i.e. AWS.

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by dewey on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:08AM (#23667783)

Sounds like they are saying that you can have an S3 equivalent and DNS services without being on AWS. Which is true and most of the time less expensive.

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Re:How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue by nisten on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:28AM (#23669391)

You can if your company can afford to pay enough to hire an entire devops team in a short time.

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