Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS? • Hacker News Board

Post by boulos » Sat, Oct 15, 2016, 5:30 AM UTC

plandis wrote: post #175

boulos wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need to be a cloud expert to start with GCE or EC2 instead of a VPS provider. If you end up just going straight to GCE instead of a droplet that's not a big mental hurdle. Then as the parent said, if you suddenly need to scale up, bolt on other services (like say GCS or Cloud SQL) you're not starting with a migration. You will spend more than $5/month on either AWS or GCP, but the example here seems focused…

Okay this is like your 6 or 7th post in this discussion advertising for Google. Can we stop wth the spam now?

Sigh. I didn't want to respond, but someone pointed out to me that you work at Amazon (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12181599). I think it's fair to say that in a thread asking about alternatives to AWS, I was both factual and disclosed my non-trivial source of potential bias (so my statements didn't constitute spam).

Again, I don't mean this to be an ad hominem response, but I take the disclosure "expectation" seriously, and it's frustrating to see folks (competitor or not) try to squelch discussion.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.