Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by sshine on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:24AM
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Having talked to AWS evangelists, it seems that they truly believe it cuts costs. In their reality this is true, because an alternative with the same guarantees and risk costs more. The implicit disagreement is that you often don’t need all those guarantees.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by marcosdumay on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:40AM
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> because an alternative with the same guarantees and risk costs more
I really doubt this. The one theme you see on almost every AWS proponent is some high amount of delusion about what guarantees AWS actually provides you.
Hmm. I guess there's guarantees that it won't happen, and guarantees that if it happens then it wasn't supposed to and can't be your fault, and the latter may still be pretty attractive to some decision-makers.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by marcosdumay on Monday February 06, 2023 @11:39AM
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> if it happens then it wasn't supposed to and can't be your fault
Yeah, sure. Nobody gets fired for buying from IBM.
Well, if large companies had any competence in decision-making, they would be unbeatable and it would be hopeless to work on anything else at all. So, yeah, that's a public good.