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by bdcravens 1109 days ago
> What you DON'T get with ECS is awesome working-out-of-the-box open source software like External Secrets, External DNS, LetsEncrypt, the Amazon Ingress Controller, argo rollouts, services, ingresses, cronjobs... I could go on and on.

The AWS ecosystem has much of this baked-in. (Parameter Store, Certificate Manager, etc) Vendor lock-in is of course a concern, but for many, a theoretical one.
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jpgvm 1109 days ago
The main problem with the AWS ecosystem is you generally need to code against it directly. Much of the OSS stuff is designed to have a much more drop-in feeling, especially if you are going with stuff like Spring Cloud etc to abstract over things for you.

If you can choose an option that is going to be way less work even if it's "more complex" that is often the right choice as long as you understand what that complexity is and can pierce through the covers if necessary.

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bdcravens 1109 days ago
Local/cloud parity is a concern, though Localstack provides some options now that weren't available a few years ago.

https://localstack.cloud/

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