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by tlrobinson 2184 days ago
You mean this? https://aws.amazon.com/solutionspace/financial-services/solu...
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simple_phrases 2184 days ago
Haha, no I didn't mean that service in particular. I was using 'special snowflake solution' as a derogatory term for the branded and managed services that cloud providers sell.
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tlrobinson 2184 days ago
Sorry, I should have made it clear I was joking :)
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simple_phrases 2183 days ago
I figured but you never know. Sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet.
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edoceo 2184 days ago
I think they mean custom/managed+locked-in solution.

EG: I can move HA PG to any provider but if I build around RDS specific tooling I'm boxed in and any migrations are OOM harder.

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