Powering a Serverless Web: Vercel Joins AWS Marketplace
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https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1644099739959590912
(I am not working for Vercel)
I think the vast majority of us can deal with outages as opposed to dealing with a sudden $3000 bill.
Vercel already used AWS infra under the hood, but lots of big corps would not host with them probably because AWS all the things. Now they can get vercel bundled into their AWS bill right?
But now AWS credit holders can spend them on Vercel via the marketplace.
They should have just started with name dropping nextjs
When I had to update any really old nextjs/now projects that was a bit of a pain, you had custom runtimes and whatnot in now which was cool
Also Vercel's and Netlify's serverless function might be similar but ain't exactly 1:1 the same.
I think vercel is more powerful, netlify seems more oriented to frontenders or so to me, dunno
All of them are UX wrappers of AWS infra underneath anyways
My prediction is that somebody is going to merge with somebody. Or somebody is going to acquire another when the finance markets stabilize.
Cool stuff:
1. Speedy local development with smart defaults.
2. Equal focus on local, staging, and production environments.
3. Seamless integration with AWS SAM and CloudFormation.
4. Secure least privilege access for resources.
5. Open source under Apache 2.0 and part of the OpenJS Foundation.
6. Backward compatibility and regular updates.
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-lwqascgzju3bo
As a vendor, if you want to participate, you have to have a public listing page with a price. But many vendors don't actually want you to initiate the buying process that way. They want you to talk to them first, negotiate a deal/contract, and only then handle the payment through AWS marketplace (presumably with pre-committed spend you already have on AWS) via something called "Private OFfers"
So lots of marketplace pages have an absurdly high public listing price to discourage people from using that route.
Big advocate of AWS Marketplace cutting out the spend on sales instead of engineering, sad to see this ploy destroy its value prop.
I have a large client that is in dire need of Vercel’s features. However, if they can’t run their own enterprise version behind their private VPC, then it’s a hard pass for them :(
I would love to chat. How can we connect?
Isn't it a good phrase? It means you're not responsible for a "server/virtual server/container" 24/7 to provide your backend services - but are paying for usage when your functionality is executed.
It's just really strange. HR Block wouldn't advertise as "tax-less," Waste management wouldn't advertise as "garbage-truck-less." Why not brag on what you're doing? Servers improved? Ultra-servers? Easy-servers? I don't know.
But that’s what virtual machines or container hosting services are doing. This is a level of abstraction higher than that - there’s no link between you code and any server instance. Ultimately when your code runs, it runs on a piece of hardware - a server. But it’s up to the serverless provider to choose where. If during the day your function call is invoked a million times, it could be run on the one or a million servers anywhere in the world.
I think serverless is a better term for that than ultra or easy servers, when you don’t have to think about provisioning the size or quantity of servers you require.
A better real world analogy might be the kitchens that share a seating area in a mall. Although they might still be considered ‘restaurants’ the are also ‘restaurantless’ as the tables and seats are provided to them/their customers on an as needed basis. A kitchen can serve as many diners as they are able, table provisioning is handled by someone else.
In IT, when "the world" has decided something that we geeks are just supposed to accept, it feels like most of the time it means both the geeks and regular people are getting screwed in favor of BUSINESS MARCHES ON.