DC/OS from Mesosphere is a an alternative to AWS that you should consider looking into. (Ref: https://mesosphere.com/product/) That will reduce your reliance on Amazon to just hardware, that's what are you paying for. In addition, you can use Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, your datacenter alongside as a single homogenous cluster.
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love a direct service to service comparison between the major cloud providers. Anyone know of a guide like that?
Available service, SLA, and region comparison for AWS, Google, Azure and Softlayer at a fairly high level: http://cloudcomparison.rightscale.com
I looked at that Rightscale link and I think it shows that comparing a very fast moving area like cloud services is very difficult and results in incomplete features matrix. For the unsophisticated buyer, this can lead to misleading comparisons.
For example, Rightscale has "Event-Driven Compute" (sometimes aka as "serverless computation") in the AWS column (AWS Lambda) but that entry is blank in Google Cloud column. However in February 2016, Google announced Google Cloud Functions which is the equivalent to AWS Lambda.
I'd expect a cloud comparison website to update the features matrix within 1 week of the AWS re:invent conferences, the Google I/O conferences, and any press releases.
As for the other comparison Cloudorado mentioned by another poster, that comparison matrix is missing database services like mapreduce, business intelligence analytics, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#83Google 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…
Or he can use something like Heroku.
Which is just using AWS and is at least twice as expensive.
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Classic premature optimisation. Those hours spent mastering the 10s of products you need to use to do it the 'right' way would be better spent on marketing, business logic, and 5 minutes installing apache + php on a Digital Ocean droplet which also is the dev environment. If your company suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune & needs to migrate, you can paid someone who is an expert to help you migrate, b…
That is a false dichotomy. The reality should fall in between, learn enough to understand some of the design choices you make, but don't overcook it.
Learn enough to go live. Hire people who know the rest.
Learn enough to do the rest if you want to work for someone else doing the rest.
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I think that Joyent does not get the coverage it deserves. SmartOS looks very very cool.
Joyent's made some bad PR moves. I was a Textdrive customer and the way they treated the lifetime hosting folks put a very sour taste in my mouth.
I was a textdrive "lifetime" customer. I paid thousands and received nothing. Do not use Joyent.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#86I have been using Hetzner, I have few servers there. Linux and Windows. They are very cheap if you look someone in Europe. I usually recommend Hetzner and if there will be scaling problems we can always move to expensive places like AWS and Azure.
I also have great experiences with Azure but not sure how it fits to startup world. I am only working on Azure on enterprise (.NET) customers and for them it is a nice service. Microsoft has Bizpark where you can get tons of Azure power for next to nothing. https://bizspark.microsoft.com//plus/
I have not worked on Google Cloud but as mentioned in comments I probably should look into that.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#87I have been using Hetzner, I have few servers there. Linux and Windows. They are very cheap if you look someone in Europe. I usually recommend Hetzner and if there will be scaling problems we can always move to expensive places like AWS and Azure.
I also have great experiences with Azure but not sure how it fits to startup world. I am only working on Azure on enterprise (.NET) customers and for them it is a nice service. Microsoft has Bizpark where you can get tons of Azure power for next to nothing. https://bizspark.microsoft.com//plus/
I have not worked on Google Cloud but as mentioned in comments I probably should look into that.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#88On a related note, is there a SaaS platform for access to cheap (~ $.001 +/- $.002 per Gb) disk space?
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#89Azure looks like the only major one you missed. I've used both AWS and Azure a lot. The best one will obviously depend on your use case but if you avoid lock in it shouldn't matter too much. I may write more on this if people are interested. AWS comparison: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/azure-vs-aws/ They have more regions than AWS (30 vs 13): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/ https://aws.amazo…
I would love to read more about AWS vs Azure, how services compare, and strategies on how to avoid lock in.
Any recommendation?
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#90Good question! AWS is currently getting a mess for us. We're facing an auto scaling spot instance bug (it's definitely one) and we're trying since 3 days to contact anybody from them to get our business back on to the road! We're now forced to sign-up for a paid support plan. Nevertheless, they already breached the SLA of 12 hours, it's really frustrating... First thought after 5 years of paying them a lot of money t…
While I like GCE more than AWS, when it comes to support GCE is also paid-only.
GCE plans are much easier to understand though. TIL AWS support plan cost varies by how much you bill and higher the bill, higher the support cost!. That doesn't make any sense.