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Amazon Cognito
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Re: Amazon Cognito
#92When I see products like this, my first question is: could you write an free, open-source app with this without having to shell out your personal money to make it happen?
For Amazon Cognito, the answer appears to be "yes, until all of your users together store more than 10GB". ie. until your app gets popular.
So for free open-source apps, I think I'd prefer to stick with Dropbox or Google Drive, where the billing is associated with an account the user already has (which most users can operate entirely within the free tier). That way you don't run into a situation where you are a victim of your own success, by exceeding a free tier that applies to the sum of all user data in your app.
Re: Amazon Cognito
#93The interesting thing about all these services is that they're trying to abstract away the same types of problems that all developers come across: Identity, connectivity, sync/backup (and to some extent, deployment). A different (and more disruptive?) approach to this would be to put more control of these things into the hands of end-users such that they provide the 'backend' into which you (the developer) load your…
I'm really intrigued by this model of internet infrastructure. Would you mind helping me understand the relevant difference between what you, Sandstorm[1], and OpenPDS[2] are doing?
Re: Amazon Cognito
#94The interesting thing about all these services is that they're trying to abstract away the same types of problems that all developers come across: Identity, connectivity, sync/backup (and to some extent, deployment). A different (and more disruptive?) approach to this would be to put more control of these things into the hands of end-users such that they provide the 'backend' into which you (the developer) load your…
Re: Amazon Cognito
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do users really care about this? My guess is that 99% don't and don't want to deal with these details. The project sounds cool and like something the HN crowd might want, but my intuition is that most users won't understand the implications. It also adds an extra step in the data storage process within the app, which increases friction and seems like it would be hard to get developers to adopt. All that said, I'd lov…
Yes, users care about this but like most things you have to segment the market appropriately. I meet more and more people who are wary of putting all their trust/data/etc into only one provider, be that Google, Apple or anyone else. It's not just a privacy thing but a growing awareness of the sheer dependency on that one company. (Aside: I have to say FB is being pretty clever by buying up apps and letting them stay…
I spent the last 3 years under this hypothesis [1][2][3]. In those 3 years I've come to realize that users don't actually care that much. Sure a subset of users care but the majority don't.
I think the "personal cloud" that makes sense both architecturally and in the minds of consumers looks very different from what we as developers understand it to be. When we took our software and began prototyping it on hardware devices (like NASes) and showed it to people their eyes lit up. They understood it. Finally.
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-pho...
[2] http://blog.trovebox.com/post/36911180540/all-cloud-storage-...
Re: Amazon Cognito
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a valid concern. AWS has been around for many years now with numerous services. Has there been a single offering which they retired or stopped supporting? I'm not aware of one. Amazon doesn't just create services, throws them over the wall and see if they stick. Rather, they almost always RESPOND to customer requests. Dr. Werner Vogels, AWS's CTO makes a point about that approach at about any keynote he gives. S…
SimpleDB is the closest I believe. It's still around if you are using it, but it isn't in the web console anymore.
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Re: Amazon Cognito
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it does appear to a hot topic. Still, the post was <10m old and #1 with 0 comments. Seems either extremely overhyped or artificial to me.
New product announcements from large tech companies make it to #1 before getting any comments on a regular basis. Submitting a duplicate URL counts as an upvote for the original submission, so it's pretty easy for something like this to make it to #1 just from people racing to be the first one to submit it.
Ah, I didn't know about the duplicate URL rule. That makes more sense. I've been here for quite a while and I haven't noticed such an aggressive advance before. So it triggered an alarm. Maybe I'll start seeing it more often
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#98Amazon seems to be in "me too" mode lately. They released an Android phone, a Dropbox clone, and now a Parse clone.
Instead being the vanguard of innovation, they're letting other companies validate the need for a service before swooping in.
Who's next? Probably Stripe.
Re: Amazon Cognito
#99While this (and other similar) Backend-aaS look very appealing at first glance, it seems to suffer from the same problem as most AWS offerings - terrible platform lock-in. Show me that I could move all of this to another provider if I need to, and then we can talk seriously. I also wonder how they "manage[s] the complexity of conflict resolution" without manual intervention.
Is anyone delivering the equivalent with less lock-in? I can understand both sides of the argument but it seems that over time stuff always migrates towards more control (ie, people migrate OFF of Parse, Heroku, AWS, etc). I'd envision a much better set of images, Fabric/Chef recipes, to the point where you get your AWS but with vanilla OSS on generic hosting providers.
A couple of open source options that you can deploy to your own servers (or your cloud provider):
- Apache UserGrid (incubator project)
- DreamFactory
- BaaSBox
- LoopBack
- Helios
- Deployd
Any other OSS out there for this?
Re: Amazon Cognito
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a valid concern. AWS has been around for many years now with numerous services. Has there been a single offering which they retired or stopped supporting? I'm not aware of one. Amazon doesn't just create services, throws them over the wall and see if they stick. Rather, they almost always RESPOND to customer requests. Dr. Werner Vogels, AWS's CTO makes a point about that approach at about any keynote he gives. S…
I am unaware of AWS modules discontinued by amazon, but it is also true that the oldest services are the most popular (S3, EC2) while some of the most recent ones have a (apparently?) smaller user base (SWF, Kinesis, AppStream). I think I remember amazon people saying they are actually dogfooding this stuff so it should stay available for a long time anyway, rather than being a random Google Reader.
There is a strong culture of dog-fooding in Amazon. The advantages to it are quite straight forward :) If you've got a whole bunch of DBA experts already hired, why would you hire additional people to do DBA work for every team, when they could just use RDS? Along with that is the huge added benefit of a direct feedback loop, with consumers and producers able to directly meet and deal with feature requests, problems etc. etc.
Retiring any of the services that have been launched would cause not inconsiderable pain to other teams :)