[kdeorah]

Good question. At 100x, probably not. At 10x, yes would be better than managing services on our own. By that time, we would have a better prioritized list of which services to self-manage and which ones to leave to AWS. Are you specifically concerned about DynamoDB for some reason?

[thesanerguy]

How easy or hard would it be to switch to self-managed components as you grow from 10X to 100X? Quite often, they end up becoming a tech debt that remains in the back burner. Just curious.

[kdeorah]

Ah yes. The engineer would tell you we can move when we want. The manager would tell you it is harder than it looks. Management would tell you it will never happen. :-)

See it as reducing startup risk and deferring the payment to when you become successful and have money/time to throw at problem. Though there are best practices to do it in a clean way so moving is easier.

Do you know some known gotchas here?

[awinder]

I’d be curious why you think at 100x is where you would lose out on TCO with self managed. I feel like staff time commitment should only go up with larger fleets, you’d really start running into the pricing advantages on 0-rated network here etc.