The core services, which for me are EC2, S3, EBS, and VPC, work really well. They rarely have out...
Their pricing model consistently gets better while features get added. It's still very pricey, b...
The ecosystem. It has all the basic infrastructure just ready and waiting. Sure, it's not always ...
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It works and has a HUGE service library. You can do anything with AWS
The pricing contains many semi-hidden gotchas and require intense studying and attention in order...
Their interface is terrible and they overcomplicate most of the services.
Opaque billing, permissions and security (I am still befuddled by IAM, SSO, groups, etc half the ...
Cost is one factor. You need to be really careful.
The complexity and not too much effort in the documentation
We paid for ProductHunt Ship and got $5,000 AWS credit (available for 1 year). Our current usage of AWS per month is…
40% off entire bill, but using a lot of lock in services, bill clocks in ~$2m/mo. Initial quote was 20% off.
Despite using them for several years, we got $10k credits based on the possibility of moving out.
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AWS turned storage, computing, databases, and more into an API call. Twilio did the same to phone calls and SMS messages. Stripe did that to money. Sendgrid and Mailgun and more did that to email. ...
Several months back, Amazon AWS launched Amazon Honeyccode as a low-code app builder, something slightly akin to Airtable. Then Microsoft launched Microsoft Lists as a way to "track information an...
Education is expensive. If there’s one tiny bright side to the costs of tuition and textbooks, though, it’s that tech is far cheaper as a student.
It’s not only the regular back-to-school discounts on laptops or Apple Music and Spotify’s half priced student plans that help. You can also get much of…
Software’s not all that expensive when you buy one app for one person. It saves time and makes you money, and all’s well.
Then your team grows, and by the time you pay for G Suite, Slack, GitHub, and all your other work tools, software’s not such an innocent expense anymore. Pay $75 per person for…
