Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront

Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by makethetick on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:37AM (#23809596)

You should take a look at Amplify (https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/), it will make the whole process considerably less painful, allow you to easily access AppSync (graphql) and Lambda with your code all in one place, then also trigger rebuilds on git commits.

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by speedgoose on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:42AM (#23809613)

Too much vendor lock-in.

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by thih9 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:48AM (#23809646)

Could you give examples where vendor lock in becomes a problem?

Ideally something practical (as opposed to theoretical) or something from personal experience.

I generally agree but I feel that more details could be useful.

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by speedgoose on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:21AM (#23810077)

It's simple, you are not stuck with a vendor.

A practical example that happened to my employer recently : we migrated to Microsoft Azure when they opened two datacenters in our country. We didn't have to change any code because we don't use vendor locked solutions.

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by ssss11 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:57AM (#23809678)

Any time you want to leave that vendor. If they up their prices greatly, reduce service levels, refuse to give attention to improving service levels.. break a clause in the contract... an so on.

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by rpadovani on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:21AM (#23810321)

While this is true in theory, I don't recall a single instance of AWS increasing pricing or reducing service levels - not saying that is impossible, but it hasn't happened so far (at least that I remember)

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by rat9988 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @04:14AM (#23809774)

When you deal with google cloud and they up their price. Didn't see it with the other vendors though.

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by makethetick on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:59AM (#23809694)

It is but you've already stepped down this path the moment you moved away from shared or self hosting.

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Re:Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront by speedgoose on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:22AM (#23810083)

I think hosting files in a S3 bucket with a CDN in front is easy to replace. You can do the same with two Docker containers or host it the same way in many other clouds.

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