Comment by andrewstuart
5 hours ago
Yup.
One day, as you spend vast resources tracking and cutting and worrying about your AWS expenses, you’ll think “hey I could cut 100% of AWS costs by not using it!”.
Thinking about cutting AWS costs is your first step on the journey to never using it.
That’s great, until realise that you’re now spending money on infrastructure elsewhere instead.
I’m not going to pretend AWS is cost effective for every type of problem. But the comments here are overly simplistic.
Also, and more generally, I find it disappointing that when someone has made an open source tool to help the community, most of the comments are cheap attacks at the cost of running AWS. Poor etiquette guys.
> I’m not going to pretend AWS is cost effective for every type of problem. But the comments here are overly simplistic.
There overly simplistic comments from the "run from AWS" crowd as well as from the "just outsource everything to cloud" crowd. Nowadays going to cloud is still the easiest and safest bet if the company is not yours and it's big enough.
Run from AWS is also completely arbitrary. Someone building an expensive Rube Goldberg machine out of lambdas might hit cost problems way before someone essentially using AWS as a VPS provider with bare metal EC2