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by jacooper 1415 days ago
I think people should just be more open to use other providers. Not immediately jump to AWS when they want to host anything, especially due to it's pricing and overhead.

Linode, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH and many others will probably be enough or sometimes better for your use case while still being cheaper.
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zxcvbn4038 1415 days ago
AWS leads in support, my employer continues to pay their prices just because we know we can get someone on the phone in a couple minutes if we are in a jam, and we’ll get real help and answers from that person. GCP is always trying to win us with a truckload of free credits, but we know what their support is like, so we aren’t taking the bait.

I would be really curious to know what people think of the support from Oracle Cloud. Their pricing is significantly lower then AWS and many of the interfaces seem so similar it would just be search and replace on our terraform templates to start bringing things up. If I had to go multi cloud they would be the first place I investigated seriously, but it’s a no-go if their support is anything like GCP.

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mpalfrey 1415 days ago
Yep. I've spent evenings on the phone with AWS support in the past. We spend a lot with them, but their support was excellent and I was able to get on the phone pretty quick (it was issues with an Elasticsearch cluster that crashed).

Overall they're different tools, for maybe different situations. I like AWS and it'd be my usual go to (I'm AWS certified) and also like Azure (I love Azure resource groups - they make life pretty nice). Not used GCP in anger. I've also spent years running software on premises (I kind of miss these days as I did a load of travel when things went wrong!).

The smaller players have insanely good pricing and I'd see why you'd want to use them. But for something like an e-commerce application I think I'd just feel happier hosting it on one of the big players. Not to mention it might be an easier sell from e.g. a compliance point of view (disclaimer, I've not read up into what e.g. Hetzner supports in terms of PCI etc compliance).

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