Anyone here actually using EC2-classic? If so, what has been the reason for not upgrading?
> I miss EC2 Classic :/. It always feels like the entire world of VPCs must have come from the armies of network engineers who felt like if the world didn't support all of the complexity they had designed to fix a problem EC2 no longer had--the tyranny of cables and hubs and devices acting as routers--that maybe they would be out of a job or something, and so rather than design hierarchical security groups Amazon just brought back in every feature of network administration I had been happily prepared to never have to think about ever[] again :(.
There were some responses:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25988915
Honestly and likely overly-frankly, I have absolutely nothing positive to say about VPC or any of the engineers who worked on or with it: it seems like it is uninspired and creates complexity out of whole cloth with absolutely no benefits I have ever heard of to redeem its existence. For a long time, instances could not have multiple security groups, which limited the mechanism... but that was fixed long ago; security groups should simply have been made hierarchical instead of forcing everyone to think about network layout and address space limitations as part of manually laid-out networking in what should be a purely cloud resource capable of infinite extension... all of that networking equipment and subnet numbering exists in the real world to solve problems virtual hardware does not and should not have. EC2 Classic was "fun" to work with and yet had no limits... VPC is "work" and offers nothing in return.