I think part (all?) of the appeal of the incremental add on services is that bandwidth inside AWS is generally free, and the low latency. You could, in theory, use a dozen providers, but then you’d need to pay transit, etc. for the whole mess as well.
Bandwidth, plus really simple credentials. Being able to use IAM role policies for authorization to AWS services is ridiculously convenient. Of course, it’s also possible to roll that by hand without storing plain text secrets easily-accessible, but oh god no.
Just remember kids, keep using the acronyms when talking to people. It sounds smarter!
Pretty funny though (and as someone who uses Glacier, “very slow” doesn’t convey the message well enough).
I love the “similar app” thing, I didn’t know there were open alternatives to some of the services.
I think part (all?) of the appeal of the incremental add on services is that bandwidth inside AWS is generally free, and the low latency. You could, in theory, use a dozen providers, but then you’d need to pay transit, etc. for the whole mess as well.
Bandwidth, plus really simple credentials. Being able to use IAM role policies for authorization to AWS services is ridiculously convenient. Of course, it’s also possible to roll that by hand without storing plain text secrets easily-accessible, but oh god no.