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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

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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

What else is left?

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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post #19
post #12

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

Those all do what they say on the tin (and do it well enough), but the vendor lockin is very real.

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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post #12

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.

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

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Earlier 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

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.

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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post #16

Cant find the pricing change announcement, mind to share a link to it?

It’s mentioned in the blog the article links to. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/improve-your-app-authentica...

Ah thanks, found at the bottom of the article.

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Drug dealer pricing? You start free and once you are on the hook exorbitant increases will come.

Drug dealers are sensitive to the price their market can bare, they don't let you use unlimited drugs then charge you at the end of the month.

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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Earlier 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

Okta has been plagued by security issues [1], never heard of Ping Identity, Azure only makes sense if you get a sweetheart deal and are willing to deal with Azure's crap, and I'd never recommend anyone to use anything Google any more.

[1] https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=54722

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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post #12

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.

EC2 sold below market rate ? S3 I could argue somehow (unconvincingly). But what's the argument for EC2 ?

Who’s actually paying list price?

Re: Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

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post #25

Earlier 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.

I'll take the scummy sales tactics over the cognito API any day of the week
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