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Amazon Unleashed Flood of Water on Striking Workers, Say Teamsters
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I've really been trying hard to convince people to use Digital Ocean or GCP instead of AWS but it's a hard road. AWS has become the Microsoft Office of web services, where most companies won't even consider alternatives.
A big problem here is a whole generation of developers who have learned to build stuff explicitly for AWS. If I ever inherit another Serverless project it'll be too soon.
Serverless, S3, SES, Cognito, and many many other tools are often tightly coupled to the application, so you get hooked on the "free" tier and can't extricate yourself later.
There's some hope here with Docker and Kubernetes, but a lot of companies (especially contractors) only know how to build exclusively on top of these AWS services, so if you're like most start-ups, contracting out first and second generations of your app, you can get committed to AWS for life.
Isn't AWS like, stupid expensive too?
Typically AWS is cheaper than the other majors. Some of the minors can be cheaper if you don’t need all the bells and whistles. AWS’s free tier is incredibly hard to beat for tiny hobby things and learning. At enterprise scale, you really have to go with a major over a minor if you need volume. The minors fit best for a very specific, smaller niche that will never allow them to grow enough to take on the majors.
I have only ever found AWS to be stupid expensive for new things before they get called out for price gouging.
Just like Office365