Re:Amazon Honeycode Shutting Down
by lolinder on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:09PM
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Where do you arrive at a week or two as an estimate for taking a cloud platform and making it self-hostable, even as an MVP? I know nothing about Honeycode, but I would bet that it's piecing together a bunch of AWS services behind the scenes rather than being something you can just stick on an EC2 instance.
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Wouldn't even need to be the same application, just something that lets the existing data form a functional application. Could even plug into Amplify, Step Functions, etc
Isn't what you're proposing an entirely new product? How could an engineer put that together in two weeks?
No, just a wrapper really. As you said, most of the heavy lifting is done by the AWS services. It needn't be high quality at all; just something that someone could download to not lose all of their work.
Of course I meant "two weeks" as something more or less metaphorical - could be 16 weeks, and a 2-pizza team, given the amount of time until Honeycode shuts down. I just think Amazon has the resources to do that.
If I was a competitor like Retool I'd be building a migration tool right now.