Here's the simple thing to know about AWS. They sell two great products (EC2 and S3) below market value so that you get locked in and their sales teams can upsell you on everything else. If you are a customer and are tempted to try out their alphabet soup of managed services because it all seems so convenient – don't.
SQS, SNS and Lambda are great as well
Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
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Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#22Here's the simple thing to know about AWS. They sell two great products (EC2 and S3) below market value so that you get locked in and their sales teams can upsell you on everything else. If you are a customer and are tempted to try out their alphabet soup of managed services because it all seems so convenient – don't.
SQS, SNS and Lambda are great as well
Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#23Here's the simple thing to know about AWS. They sell two great products (EC2 and S3) below market value so that you get locked in and their sales teams can upsell you on everything else. If you are a customer and are tempted to try out their alphabet soup of managed services because it all seems so convenient – don't.
Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#24Cant find the pricing change announcement, mind to share a link to it?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/improve-your-app-authentica...
Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Almost every other SaaS vendor supports multi-region active-active and Cognito does not. Who are we talking about here? Google and Azure?
auth0, okta, ping identity, azure, google
Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#26Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#27Drug dealer pricing? You start free and once you are on the hook exorbitant increases will come.
Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Almost every other SaaS vendor supports multi-region active-active and Cognito does not. Who are we talking about here? Google and Azure?
auth0, okta, ping identity, azure, google
Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#29Here's the simple thing to know about AWS. They sell two great products (EC2 and S3) below market value so that you get locked in and their sales teams can upsell you on everything else. If you are a customer and are tempted to try out their alphabet soup of managed services because it all seems so convenient – don't.
EC2 sold below market rate ? S3 I could argue somehow (unconvincingly). But what's the argument for EC2 ?
Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
auth0, okta, ping identity, azure, google
Had some pretty negative experiences with pricing/"enterprise" sales tactics by Okta (which now owns Auth0, and they used the same tactics on both products). I will take AWS pricing shenanigans over that any day.