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This isn't the only way, though.

Cloudfront can distribute static content and backends running on Lambda@Edge.

DynamoDB supports global distribution (eventually consistent).

If you don't have massive scale, they're quite cheaper than self managing (infra itself and ops people involved).

Yes, these services require adaptation to your old habits of freely controlling your own servers.

As for vendor lock-in, even on EC2 you'll end up with some. Difficult to argue how much, there's no reproducible studies on that.

There are programming practices to minimize the costs of vendor switch as well.

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Not really sure this adheres to HN guidelines [1].

What's the substance here? What respectful idea are you adding to the discussion? Maybe this kind of comment would fit better a Facebook group?

If you like this community and benefit from "thoughtful" and "substantive" ideas shared here, I'd suggest reading these guidelines.

They are meant to avoid HN from descending to shallowness and disrespect, like many other communities around the web ended up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

I think this is the line that triggered the parent:

"Cloudfront can distribute static content and backends running on Lambda@Edge."

The really scary thing is that the aws products being lampooned are the mainstream ones. Amazon has, what, another couple hundred "offerings"?

Here on HN, there are people that say if you're using AWS only for the basic EC2 you're doing it wrong. They can be correct in the tactical sense, but in the strategic sense, AWS is cackling with glee.

If I were building an IT org, I'd have an Infra as code foundation that from the foundation supported both AWS and other options that are far cheaper. AWS for prototyping and DR/redundancy but it "seamlessly" (I can hear the eyeballs roll and you're all not wrong) will deploy to non-AWS.

It's crazy that the basic tooling for EC2 / google computer / azure / etc to do this is only at the quarter-state. Hey HN, isn't there a massive opportunity for a company to meta-manage this?

For anyone reading this for the first time, well worth the watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag

Thanks for sharing, gave me context.

But the parent comment and video were not worth the time at all.

Maybe I'm failing to see the value? Happy to reconsider if you have more perspectives.

It seems to me such video will only serve as fuel for cynic behavior. Which I wouldn't like to see more on HN.

it's an older code sir, but it checks out

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