Show HN: Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and Azure

Re:Show HN: Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and... by skafoi on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:54AM (#28167475)

Do you also offer some kind of abstraction libraries when e.g. working with DynamoDB on AWS and then switching to GCP? Or would I still have to prepare my code for that?

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Re:Show HN: Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and... by igorzij on Friday August 13, 2021 @07:09AM (#28167565)

Things like Dynamo are AWS-specific, it is their way of locking you in. You could use MongoDB or Cassandra (which is right depends on what you use it for) that would work in any cloud provider. Moreover, for 90% of use cases the capabilities of good old PostgreSQL are more than sufficient, even if you store JSON in it and use it like a document DB.

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Re:Show HN: Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and... by milesward on Friday August 13, 2021 @07:12PM (#28175988)

Try Alternator from ScyllaDB to break that lock :)

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Re:Show HN: Alicorn Cloud – Easily move between AWS, GCP and... by PeterCorless on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:40AM (#28222787)

Thanks for the shout-out Miles!

Yes, for folks who do not know, you can use Scylla, a NoSQL database that has a DynamoDB-compatible API, to deploy to other clouds (GCP) or even on-premises. It's been running in production for some years now. Here's the blog when we announced it, and there's more to be found on ScyllaDB.com — just search for "Alternator."

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/09/11/scylla-alternator-the-op...

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