AWS costs every programmer should know (2019)

Re:AWS costs every programmer should know (2019) by dncornholio on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:21AM (#31680280)

> If you have the people/skills and need control over exactly how your hardware is provisioned, go on-prem and good luck but plenty of us would rather concentrate on what we are good at and are happy to pay 50-100K per year to a cloud provider to do it for us.

This is the only thing that matters when you talk about AWS. All your other points are not mutual exclusive.

I love the "good luck". As if it's some magic that we do to get applications run on the internet. It's not as hard as you think. Even scaling. These are solved problems and just abstracted away by AWS behind a paywall.

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Re:AWS costs every programmer should know (2019) by Slartie on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:40AM (#31680457)

> I love the "good luck". As if it's some magic that we do to get applications run on the internet.

For those of us that haven't gone through the internet of the late 1990s or early 2000s as a software developer, where it was the norm for everyone to self-host their hobbyist or semi-professionally-operated online services on rented or bought linux boxes, it actually often is some kind of black magic.

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