https://minio.io - Open source alternative to AWS-S3, written in go.
The word "Alternative" may create little bit over-expectation on this product.
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
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#102Google cloud - I have recently been working on setting up our company's entire infrastructure on google cloud and we were up and running in no time (very happy currently). - Great pricing - Great API (command line, REST) - Nearly perfect documentation - Awesome support (I had requested to allow more static ip addresses to be reserved and they resolved my ticket in less than 4 hours) - Very intuitive interface They gi…
"great pricing" it is not. None of the major cloud providers have great pricing with the exception of some niche cases.
Look at Hetzner. Look at the cheap VPS options. Google/AWS don't come even close.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#103Azure 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?
OK, I'll write a blog post about this, but it effectively boils down to use something standard that you can run yourself or on another provider.
For example on AWS, using RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) or ElastiCache (memcached, redis) is fairly low lock in. You can run all of these yourself or use another cloud. Azure offers a similar hosted redis service for instance.
However, something like Lambda or DynamoDB can't be run elsewhere.
Similarly, on Azure if you use their Machine Learning PaaS system then you are pretty locked in. Yet you could easily move a website to appharbor or elastic beanstalk. Or just run your own server (VPS, IaaS, EC2 etc.)
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#104Google app engine with flexible environment is really cool.
Google-app-engine couple of years ago was claustrophobic with most of the things baked inside its environment. As a developer I felt restricted and there was the fear of locking in.
But with intro of flexible environment its really good for any web application (except ones with real-time communication as sockets arent supported yet). So for now way to work around this is - have a (GKE) kubernetes handle all real time traffic and REST traffic to app-engine.
I havent used AWS so so cant comment on it - but there is another reason its better to be on google compute engine - Google kind of leads in machine learning and AI - so when they decide to role out goodies on server side - its not a bad idea staying close to these.
edit: really food -> really good :)
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#105Google 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…
My opinion on this is that you still learn and deploy on AWS or GCE. The learning curve might be steep at first but it'll save a lot of heartache when your organization scales or you want to set up a complex deployment that one of the smaller players don't necessarily support.
> when your organization scales
Case in point: AWS/GCE are intended for organizations. If you're not operating an organization, they're overkill.
Do the Quick test: Is your budget less than $100/month? If yes, use Digital Ocean.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love to read more about AWS vs Azure, how services compare, and strategies on how to avoid lock in. Any recommendation?
I have previously built a auto-scaling/healing Mesos cluster on AWS for a retail company (scaling heavily during peak and sometimes during promotions) and doing the same on Azure for a much bigger retail organisation at the moment. So this is my in the trenches comparison: - AWS documentation is excellent, Azure docs are weird and inconsistent and for some bits nonexistent. - Azure API's are inconsistent and weird, b…
Agree completely, two additions:
Azure's interface is years ahead of AWS. Most importantly: there's a single entry-point for everything. Just this month I was evaluating some stuff on AWS. I was certain that I had cleared everything that I was using up - I hadn't. Luckily it was merely a $17 lesson.
The nomenclature used is also quite understandable, unlike AWS which has branded everything down to the NIC.
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#107Seriously...haven't looked at Azure?
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#108Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
#109I gathered a lot of bookmarks for major IaaS clouds comparison on twitter:
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#110There is a lot of votes here for cloud providers. And while I think AWS is great, it is not great at everything. What I've done recently is buying used servers and 10G/40g network switches from Ebay and rented a colo(colocation) rack, which can be had from $500-$1000 per month per rack. This often includes 100mbit++ internet, power, cooling and more ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre ) This has been th…
How does the cost of doing it yourself compare to AWS for what you need?