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Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by nikau » Fri, May 29, 2020, 4:52 PM UTC

lucianf wrote: post #332

scarface74 wrote: post #304

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Yes people who want to avoid lock in really want to get in bed with “call us for pricing” Oracle.

Point taken. Every time Oracle is mentioned it's in the context of horror licensing stories. I get that - but would it make a difference if I said OCI is actually different? Take this with as much salt as you want but they're really trying to put that in the past. OCI pricing is super transparent, simple metrics, cheaper than the incumbents on every front, there's no "call us for pricing", there's a transparent 30% d…

Not a shame.

You have a company that charges licenses based on the physical core count even if you run the product in a VM using only a single core, but then they also want to be your cloud supplier.

The only strong point of Oracle is legacy product lock in, you would be crazy to pick them for any new initiatives.

Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by pathseeker » Fri, May 29, 2020, 6:54 PM UTC

pdonis wrote: post #286

pathseeker wrote: post #237

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>I mean, they're operating this stuff at Internet scale and have never (AFAIK) raised prices Prices should have gone down because they've continued to scale up and go into custom cooling/hardware/backbones/etc. You're basically saying that you're cutting them slack because their margins have gotten much larger and they haven't decided to raise prices to make them even bigger.

> Prices should have gone down because they've continued to scale up and go into custom cooling/hardware/backbones/etc. Why should that make prices go down? Prices aren't based on cost. They're based on what the market will bear, i.e., what customers will pay. If you think AWS is too costly, you can go find some other solution. If enough customers start doing that that AWS's financial state suffers, AWS will have to…

Way to miss the forest for the trees. This is a discussion about how someone feels about the prices being charged. The argument is the poor old Amazon deserves slack because they haven't raised costs.

My point is that their prices could have gone down without them even feeling any pain because their costs have gone down. They don't deserve slack for keeping prices the same. Keeping prices the same just means their competitors either suck or they sit in an oligopoly together.

Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by archielc » Sat, May 30, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

StevePerkins wrote: post #219

> Lightsail - Amazon’s hosting provider (vps, dns, storage) > Kinesis - Collect massive amount of data so you can do analytics (like ELK?) Based on some of these that I'm already familiar with, I don't think I would rely on these descriptions for the ones I'm not already familiar with.

Couldn’t agree more.

Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by Shorel » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 8:49 PM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #305

Shorel wrote: post #278

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I started using my new account yesterday. I already got a surprise, because in one place it says t2.micro and t3.micro instances are free for twelve months. But, if the instance runs Windows, or the zone is this or that, or something else I don't know, the only free tier instance is actually the t2.micro. And then there's the Unlimited option, and CPU credits, where if your CPU use goes over 25% for some time, it wil…

Or if that’s all you need you could run Lightsail for simple billing....

I don't need simple billing. Lightsail seems to "suggest" way more expensive options than what I am using right now.

What I need is clear and upfront documentation about pricing, before the bill comes.

Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by simonebrunozzi » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

mikorym wrote: post #349

elchief wrote: post #253

I made this list for my buddy a while back. It's meant to be more humorous than exactly correct Route 53 - Holy shit! It's NSD WAF - Holy shit! It's modsecurity SES - Holy shit! It's Postfix Inspector - Holy shit! It's OSSEC GuardDuty - Holy shit! It's Snort Data Pipeline - Holy shit! It's Cron and Bash Athena - Holy shit! It's Prestodb Glue - Holy shit! It's Hive Metastore and Spark OpsWorks - Holy shit! It's Chef V…

> DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's MongoDB DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's broken MongoDB

Ha. I'd say it's almost the opposite.