> If you’re a startup you want to focus on your product, and all this cloud tech is just a distraction. AWS is for big companies with a lot of turnover that can’t run their own machines.
Can't emphasize how wrong this is, and how for our company the exact opposite was true.
I don't manage any servers, our infrastructure runs on a mix of serverless technologies. Yes, at some point we may move things around because of cost, but that was planned up front and will be straightforward (our instances are just Docker containers running on Cloud Run and/or App Engine Flexible).
The reason this is such bad advice is because there is a ton of shit you need to do on your own (or, more likely, doesn't get done at all in some cases) if you run your own infrastructure:
1. You need to setup all of your own logging aggregation and monitoring systems. That's really a few clicks in a cloud.
2. You need to constantly update your images for security reasons. In a cloud, that is done for me.
3. All the systems I use are autoscaling. If I have a spike in traffic for some reason, probably the time when I most want my servers to be up, I don't have to scramble.
If you're a a startup and want to just focus on your product, you should build in the cloud. If you want to focus on your infrastructure, by all means build it yourself.
Can't emphasize how wrong this is, and how for our company the exact opposite was true.
I don't manage any servers, our infrastructure runs on a mix of serverless technologies. Yes, at some point we may move things around because of cost, but that was planned up front and will be straightforward (our instances are just Docker containers running on Cloud Run and/or App Engine Flexible).
The reason this is such bad advice is because there is a ton of shit you need to do on your own (or, more likely, doesn't get done at all in some cases) if you run your own infrastructure:
1. You need to setup all of your own logging aggregation and monitoring systems. That's really a few clicks in a cloud.
2. You need to constantly update your images for security reasons. In a cloud, that is done for me.
3. All the systems I use are autoscaling. If I have a spike in traffic for some reason, probably the time when I most want my servers to be up, I don't have to scramble.
If you're a a startup and want to just focus on your product, you should build in the cloud. If you want to focus on your infrastructure, by all means build it yourself.