More layers on top of layers for what? Saying AWS is the best cloud hosting is like saying McDonals makes the best $1 hamburger, it still sucks. We've replaced the learning of evergreen skills that let us run on a variety of hosting providers for chasing AWS's tail just to pay more for a tiny slice of virtual hardware than we would for running our own colo.
Yes there are businesses that really do need that level of hardware spun up instantly, particularly anybody trying to move massive amounts of audio or video around the globe without having to invest the upfront costs to find out if they even have a viable business model, but those are far and few between.
And this is before we get into the foolishness is that moving the internet from what used to be the single most widely distributed invulnerable to disruption open source free systems on the planet to a proprietary IaaS company with a seriously evil political agenda.
AWS is exactly the wrong use case for shunting audio and video around the internet. You'll get cleaned out if you try to do that on AWS. There's 2 companies that are pulling it off. Netflix, which has partner boxes in each isp in America which dramatically lightens the load, and they're shuffling the cash in with their unsustainable production budget. The other is twitch, which got bought by Amazon and now server and data costs are inter-department funny money; and they're also in the process of fucking the userbase out of every slim dime by injecting ads everywhere and pissing off the talent.
The only way to make it make sense is to rollout your own boxes into strategic colos to the areas you want to serve. Look at Floatplane as an example.
More layers on top of layers for what? Saying AWS is the best cloud hosting is like saying McDonals makes the best $1 hamburger, it still sucks. We've replaced the learning of evergreen skills that let us run on a variety of hosting providers for chasing AWS's tail just to pay more for a tiny slice of virtual hardware than we would for running our own colo.
Yes there are businesses that really do need that level of hardware spun up instantly, particularly anybody trying to move massive amounts of audio or video around the globe without having to invest the upfront costs to find out if they even have a viable business model, but those are far and few between.
And this is before we get into the foolishness is that moving the internet from what used to be the single most widely distributed invulnerable to disruption open source free systems on the planet to a proprietary IaaS company with a seriously evil political agenda.
AWS is exactly the wrong use case for shunting audio and video around the internet. You'll get cleaned out if you try to do that on AWS. There's 2 companies that are pulling it off. Netflix, which has partner boxes in each isp in America which dramatically lightens the load, and they're shuffling the cash in with their unsustainable production budget. The other is twitch, which got bought by Amazon and now server and data costs are inter-department funny money; and they're also in the process of fucking the userbase out of every slim dime by injecting ads everywhere and pissing off the talent.
The only way to make it make sense is to rollout your own boxes into strategic colos to the areas you want to serve. Look at Floatplane as an example.
Preach.