[HN Gopher] "Nobody ever got fired for buying AWS"
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       "Nobody ever got fired for buying AWS"
        
       Author : wfaler
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-08-03 20:33 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | jacooper wrote:
       | I think people should just be more open to use other providers.
       | Not immediately jump to AWS when they want to host anything,
       | especially due to it's pricing and overhead.
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       | Linode, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH and many others will probably
       | be enough or sometimes better for your use case while still being
       | cheaper.
        
       | nkotov wrote:
       | The writer concludes that we should deploy and manage our PaaS.
       | This answer is in the same vain as "just buy your own servers".
       | The point of using AWS is that I don't need to manage or even
       | worry about of it. I pay the premium of using EKS & ECS so that I
       | don't personally need to manage my clusters. Going backwards
       | isn't an answer.
        
       | Spivak wrote:
       | > Yes, you get the benefit of backups, auto-restore, increased
       | reliability etc, but.. How to set up HA databases with frequent
       | backups and auto-restore is pretty common knowledge at this
       | point.
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       | Oh my god I'm gonna make this into a poster, my DBA friends will
       | love it. But seriously these are not common skills -- these are
       | skills you pay $200k for and still struggle to find quality
       | people. If you found yourself somewhere where the average SWE can
       | set up a metal to production ready HA DB with turnkey live
       | restores dm me your location so I can start looking on Zillow.
       | 
       | Also we're just gonna gloss over that the AWS setup includes a HA
       | managed load balancer that Hetnzer doesn't as well as the k8s
       | control plane.
       | 
       | Normally I'm on here telling people how not scary and complicated
       | on-prem (ish in this case) deployments are but I think I've
       | actually found someone who actually swung the other way.
        
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