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This guy does a great job of explaining it architecturally -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3SYDTMP3ME

> Neptune - Holy shit! It's Neo4j

Neptune - Holy shit! It's Blazegraph

It's sadly missing the RDF inferencing of Blazegraph though.

so this is why they make the wording on the proejcts so difficult or non-existent. they don't even know wtf they are doing themselves

> CloudWatch - Holy shit! It's syslogd

I'd go with grafana/prom/loki. It's both for logs and for metrics.

This is what I thought the article was going to be until I clicked through.

> DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's MongoDB

DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's broken MongoDB

Ha. I'd say it's almost the opposite.

Thank you! This is absolute gold.

Where is EKS?

I am going to screenshot this for future reference

I copy and pasted it for you, to save you a click.

Route 53 - Holy shit! It's NSD

WAF - Holy shit! It's modsecurity

SES - Holy shit! It's Postfix

Inspector - Holy shit! It's OSSEC

GuardDuty - Holy shit! It's Snort

Data Pipeline - Holy shit! It's Cron and Bash

Athena - Holy shit! It's Prestodb

Glue - Holy shit! It's Hive Metastore and Spark

OpsWorks - Holy shit! It's Chef

VPC - Holy shit! It's a VLAN

Snowball - Holy shit! It's a truck full of hard drives

CloudWatch - Holy shit! It's syslogd

Neptune - Holy shit! It's Neo4j

ElastiCache - Holy shit! It's Redis

DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's MongoDB

S3 Glacier - Holy shit! It's DVD backup

EFS - Holy shit! It's NFS

Elastic Block Store - Holy shit! It's a SAN

Elastic Beanstalk - Holy shit! It's Apache Tomcat

EMR - Holy shit! It's Apache Hadoop

Elastic Cloud Compute - Holy shit! It's a virtual machine

Kinesis - Holy shit! It's Apache Kafka

QuickSight - Holy shit! It's Tableau

I'm not sure if the sarcastic tone is meant to imply AWS is just a rehash of existing tools, but that's obviously not the case.

A list of actual competing software/products/services would be pretty useful.

Let that sink in

Especially since “EC2” is not just a VM. There are dozen services at least that come under EC2.

Also if you start trying to use DynamoDB like you would Mongo, you’re going to be really upset. The use cases, design considerations and performance considerations of DynamoDB compared to Mongo is night and day.

OK substitute VM with OpenStack then.

I’m really not trying to sound like the “do people still watch TV” guy, but I thought OpenStack fell off the hype curve years ago. Do people still use it.

ovh seems to have built its cloud products on top of it, and they're no small fry

> fell off the hype curve years ago. Do people still use it.

Hype and usage are very different. It's not like a lot of people really used it during the hype either. There are a few places which actually need something like that and can't use k8s.

Actually DynamoDB unlike MongoDB is truly a distributed store, and it actually is closer to Cassandra, Riak (RIP), Aerospike maybe some others.

Yes. But DynamoDB basically requires you to know your access patterns up front and isn’t that flexible when it comes to querying - yes I’ve watched all of the reInvent videos about how to properly model your DDB tables.

That being said, if I needed the flexibility and wanted to stay in the AWS ecosystem, I would use DocumentDB with Mongo compatibility. It uses the same storage engine as Aurora, it’s much more flexible and it doesn’t have any of the well known downsides of Mongo.