[ThrowMeDown01]

So what is the alternative? Maintaining your own infrastructure like we did before "cloud" providers, i.e. your own dedicated servers in managed locations unless you were huge enough to have your own locations? Or just a different cloud provider? It is hard to check if your suggestion is any better since you only say "don't do that", but not what else to do instead...

[scurvy]

What's your definition of huge? Just curious as it's still really cheap to rent racks even in top tier datacenters.

[ThrowMeDown01]

> What's your definition of huge?

Quoting myself:

> unless you were huge enough to have your own locations

Those locations are millions, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars investments with backup power generators large enough to provide power to a comfortably sized village. So, "large enough to a) need and b) able to afford owning such a location just for your own needs", e.g. Google, Amazon. Even companies like large banks have their servers co-hosted in a separate section but in the location owned by a 3rd party co-hosting provider. To own one you either are one of those providers or you are in the "Google tier". For the purposes of the current context, the linked article, one would even need to have multiple such locations all over the world. I think that qualifies as "huge" (the company owning such infrastructure just to run their own servers, co-hosting firms do it for others).

[scurvy]

You don't need to build and run your own datacenter to self-host. That's just ridiculous to think that's a requirement. Colo is more than fine.

[InGodsName]

We did go that route as well in past but costs were insane, experienced talent hard to find and doesn't come cheap.

Cloud has talent working in the background on AWS's payroll, they've better ability too hire at scale than what we can do.

So decided to use them, no we don't regret. It's a more reliable cost then hiring and managing a team which might prove to be less reliable.

[InGodsName]

They do filter the malacious traffic if you use their loadbalancer.

Loadbalancer is shared across the user accounts, so amazon has to stop the ddos.

They've very effective network level ddos detector/filtering