Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
by chii on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:02AM
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> you haven't done enough research.
the research isn't free either. The more indepth and time it takes to do such research, the slower you come to a decision and ship.
Cloud allows you to ship fast. It allows you to go without research - just accept the marketing, and pay up.
You pay above-cost (compared to on-prem) when you grow to a certain size. But this is usually a worthy trade off tbh.
Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
by willcipriano on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:02PM
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It's a good way to bypass legacy IT teams. A onprem server will have a bunch of snake oil endpoint protection products running on the box, bespoke config changes and take a couple months to get up and running, a ECS container is up and running in minutes and has whatever you shipped in the container without all the commentary from the peanut gallery.
Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
by icedchai on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:39PM
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I've run into this kind of snake oil in the cloud, as well. Some organizations demand all routing go through an "upstream" VPC operated by the parent org's IT dept, so various third-party security services (WAFs, IDSes, etc.) can scan / inspect the traffic.
You don't need to 'believe'. You need to do an analysis of what you need and how much each option will cost. Then you can know.
If your argument is "I believe onprem saves money" or "I bet AWS is cheaper" or "Jim Morrison came to me in a dream and said I should use Azure" then you haven't done enough research.