AWS Morning Brief
The Cloud Devil You Know
Oct 11, 2023
Exploring cloud provider options for a side project, including reliability and rapid provisioning. Understanding challenges like setting up databases and evaluating pricing. The advantages of influential customers and community knowledge when starting with AWS.
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- The reliability of a cloud provider is crucial, even with AWS, as there have been complaints and concerns about outages and service interruptions.
- Cloud pricing is complex and unpredictable, and it takes time to gain familiarity and understanding of different providers' pricing models.
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Reliability and downtime
When choosing a cloud provider, reliability is a crucial factor. Even with AWS, the leading provider, there have been complaints and concerns about outages and service interruptions. Picking a new provider without a track record makes it difficult to assess their availability. AWS is known for its rapid provisioning, making it easy to spin up resources quickly. However, other providers may have slower provisioning times, which can impede rapid iteration and scalability.
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