What would make AWS even better
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What would make AWS even better
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Re: What would make AWS even better
#2Having just started with AWS, I would say: letting me make a Kubernetes cluster that doesn't require so many different cloud objects before it will start to function.
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#3i was told that AWS Glue solves the "15 minutes or more" need that lambda cannot provide. never tried it so i cant say if its a good substitute.
that's the only service i see OP did not mention
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#4Lambda is insanely expensive is why they don’t allow long-running jobs. A 1GB allocation is $43/mo. And most lambda users are running 1 single task/process per lambda invocation.
Re: What would make AWS even better
#5Being able to save state and restore it.
Bonus points for being able to browse other configs, remix them and deploy them too.
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#6Having just started with AWS, I would say: letting me make a Kubernetes cluster that doesn't require so many different cloud objects before it will start to function.
Poof: AWS Blueprint removes a lot of boilerplate code, pair it with terraform and that's it.
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#7Lambda is insanely expensive is why they don’t allow long-running jobs. A 1GB allocation is $43/mo. And most lambda users are running 1 single task/process per lambda invocation.
Wait, so AWS does not allow long running lambdas because that would make too much money for them?
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#8For long running tasks I like to use CodeBuild, ECS Fargate (task) is also an option.
Re: What would make AWS even better
#9i was told that AWS Glue solves the "15 minutes or more" need that lambda cannot provide. never tried it so i cant say if its a good substitute. that's the only service i see OP did not mention
Glue is Apache Spark as a service. If you don't need Spark, you will be dealing with lots of uncecessary complexity.
If you do need Spark, Databricks is likely a better option though :)
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#10Long running lambdas would be sick for infrequent / low concurrency data pipelines.
My wet dream is "bidirectional IaC". Let me make changes using the GUI, commit to repo automatically.