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by talove 3128 days ago
Just wanted to share a perspecticve:

I think it's a misnomer to call it expensive or compare using a more abstracted service like Fargate vs something more granular like EC2.

If I need a service that lets me prototype, build a product, be first to market, etc. splitting hairs over compute costs seems moot. Not to say it isn't interesting to see the difference in pricing or how AWS quantified how to set pricing of the service.

FWIW, if you watched the Keynote stream, the theme of it was literally "Everything is Everything" and a bunch of catch-phrases basically meaning they've got a tool for every developer in any situation.

One other note: From my experience I'd also argue it's often times easier to migrate from fully-managed to more-self managed services than the other way around. By nature of owning more operations, you make more decisions about how it operates. Those turn into the pain-points of any migration project.

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But does this lock you in to Amazon?

Trying to run a DCOS/marathon or K8s cluster is not trivial. Last time I looked, every service out there basically spun up a Docker machine with some auto-magic cert generation.

Surely there are other services out there which will just run containers, allowing you to deploy from a k8s or marathon template? What are the other options?

> But does this lock you in to Amazon? Sorta. You can always do more yourself, usually for a cost.

Most AWS services IME offer a fair amount of portability. My high-level point is: I just want tools to build things. Not to obsess over the tools I use the build them.

That said, I don't have specific enough domain knowledge to answer your questions or suggest alternatives.

Sadly even giants like Rackspace are moving to being managers of AWS services. It’s hard to beat amazon’s pricing at scale, even if this is a touch over priced.
Got a cite for rackspace reselling aws resources?