[slt2021]

I used s3 just as an example of a service with very good track record of availability for a very low cost - and perfectly reliable available service can be created with bash scripts, aws-cli and free-tier AWS account.

perfectly fine with using SQS, just it will have worse availability guarantees than S3 - people should understand tradeoffs

[Brian_K_White]

I don't know but I think they might be suggesting that the answer to "don't need a huge complex system" is not "use someone else's huge complex system".

[slt2021]

my understanding is that you should not roll your own expensive complex huge system, just use AWS S3 which provides eleven nines of availability at $22/tb/mo.

It is really hard to beat the cost/benefit ratio of S3.

a lot of mediocre engineers cannot swallow a pill that all their expensive work with hundreds of hours of overengineering could be replaced by a couple of AWS managed serverless services stitched together with a few mouse clicks or a single .yml file