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Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#22I'm not sure you're looking for an AWS alternative if you think DigitalOcean is one.
Right now only Azure (behind) and Google Cloud (way behind) are alternatives to AWS.
If what you need is just VMs and a CRUD API, then yes, DO is a very good alternative (I run most of my servers with them).
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#23Maybe not what you wanted but hetzner? Crazy cheap. Support is garbage.
thanks, but I don't think hetzner is cloud based. most hosters still speak about servers as physical machines as in 2005.
Slightly OT but rumors are Hetzner is working on a cloud offer: http://www.hetzner-cloud.de/ [german].
Although I doubt that they can compete with AWS, Azure, GCE & Co.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#24Google has all the exact same offerings as AWS. The IaaS part is called GCE (Google Compute Engine): https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing Given all your comments in this thread. You seem to struggle quite a lot to understand the market and you didn't clarify what you want to achieve (how many servers do you have now? how many applications do you run? how many dev? how big is your company?) So forgive me for think…
Is using Digital Ocean and administering your own box simpler than using the off the shelf DB/storage options provide db AWS?
Surely the AWS options save you doing all the DBA / Server admin / security work. Albeit for more money but time = money.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#25Google Cloud is not an alternative, but a much better option. If you have pains with AWS or want a better version of Cloud (ease of use, performance, scalability), give Google Cloud a try.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#26Google has all the exact same offerings as AWS. The IaaS part is called GCE (Google Compute Engine): https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing Given all your comments in this thread. You seem to struggle quite a lot to understand the market and you didn't clarify what you want to achieve (how many servers do you have now? how many applications do you run? how many dev? how big is your company?) So forgive me for think…
Is using Digital Ocean and administering your own box simpler than using the off the shelf DB/storage options provide db AWS? Surely the AWS options save you doing all the DBA / Server admin / security work. Albeit for more money but time = money.
I don't think AWS is really simpler unless you have lots of hosts to manage. Maybe if you have 3 hosts AWS might be simpler, for some workloads. Most workloads, probably more like 10, and only if you're scaling out, not maintaining 10 totally different fiddly low-traffic apps.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#27Google has all the exact same offerings as AWS. The IaaS part is called GCE (Google Compute Engine): https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing Given all your comments in this thread. You seem to struggle quite a lot to understand the market and you didn't clarify what you want to achieve (how many servers do you have now? how many applications do you run? how many dev? how big is your company?) So forgive me for think…
Is using Digital Ocean and administering your own box simpler than using the off the shelf DB/storage options provide db AWS? Surely the AWS options save you doing all the DBA / Server admin / security work. Albeit for more money but time = money.
> Surely the AWS options save you doing all the DBA / Server admin / security work. Albeit for more money but time = money.
They do, but you need to invest enough to understand AWS's offerings, and how they fit together. Amazon's documentation is very extensive, I'll give it that - but it takes a while to build enough of a mental model to know how to fit everything together.
Generally, managing your own server is closer to the skillset people already have when starting out (unless your training was platform-specific), so starting off with a raw VPS may in fact be quicker, even if in the long term AWS/Google/etc. would save time for someone who's equally experienced in both.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#28Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#29There are a couple options, but it kind of depends on what you want.
There is Openstack, which is a collections of IaaS provider with connected with an API.
Digitial Ocean & Vultr which you already know about.
GCE mentioned else where here.
Linode, while not feature rich is the 2nd largest VPS provider.
Azure, which is Microsoft's IaaS. Which I've always had some reservations about, but have actually subcontracted management out separate companies to protect user info.
Scalaway is great low price option but there AZ's are mostly in Europe.
I'm personally using LunaNode, which doesn't offer nearly as many nine's in up time, but is great for the price (I have a 3 cpu, with 2G of ram, for ~$10 a month).
There are tonnes of IaaS platforms out there, very few have the full feature set of EC2, but again it depends on what you want.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#30The following are a few alternatives off the top of my head: * Google Compute Engine * Microsoft Azure * Joyent * IBM BlueMix * Linode (like DigitalOcean more VPS than cloud provider)
Google is not as general as AWS and therefore has serious vendor lockin. Azure only recently has decided to support docker and is not rooted in opensource. The big downside of AWS: to difficult to use for many. It seems to me a new entrant which combines easy of use, embraces opensource, would have a good chance in the market. + Rackspace. But like many these don't come from the cloud market and still think in terms…
?? starting a AskHN then quickly responding to an answer by incorrectly discrediting it?
Are you really asking a question?
Google has a lot of different things as part of it's offerings.
but very quickly:
Google App Engine = google handles as lot for you. not a vm
Google Compute Engine = vm's plus an easy to use interface