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The biggest $ cost I'd have on my radar WRT AWS vs Fly is complexity and need-to-know of employee time to do any given thing. Fly is way easier to navigate and use than AWS and its labyrinth of Cloud Scale™ horrors. The trade-off being you can do more given things with AWS.

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>Fly is way easier to navigate and use than AWS and its labyrinth of Cloud Scale™ horrors

Give fly.io a couple years and it will end up forced to take on all the complexity and edge cases AWS and Azure have to deal with today.

A shiny new codebase is always nicer than an old one, because the old one has had to accommodate all those pesky customer needs.

You think it's inevitable? I think it's unlikely, they probably run into a different kind of targets. Those "edge cases" horror seem unnecessary like permission hell, pricing model hell (and too many size)

Did that ever happen to Heroku? Ignoring 10% of use cases for their target customers and making the 90% doesn't sound crazy to me.

Yeah, this. AWS enables you to do anything you can think of, at any scale and complexity, given enough time spent reading their documentation and crafting terraform configurations.

Fly makes it really easy to do the 80% of things that most small/medium operations need to just get done now.

I can't wait for Fly to disrupt the market of Cloud Native Eldritch Horrors™

Their SLA's a bit too iffy for my use case atm but I wish them well in this noble endeavor.

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