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ExoticPearTreetoday at 2:14 PM3 repliesview on HN

> What more do you need exactly? That's essentially all I would use from the incumbent cloud providers anyway.

Pub/Sub, Dataflow, CDN, GLB to name a few. I could go on with the list of services currently used by the people that pay to push buttons.

Not to sound offensive, but others have more than a Django app that they need to run.


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Nextgridtoday at 2:29 PM

> I could go on with the list of services currently used by the people that pay to push buttons

I too can build an engineering playground where every ingress byte traverses as many AWS services as I can find. But if you're building a business application, how many of these do you actually need?

Once you have the basic primitives you can fill in the gaps yourself if needed. But in the list you provided, Pub/Sub, CDN and GLB is already covered actually.

I'm sure in due time other services will be covered if there's enough demand, but to claim there is no EU alternative while the basics (app server + DB + S3, aka the most difficult to scale/operate yourself) are covered is a bit misleading I think.

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_fizz_buzz_today at 5:28 PM

I bet 90% of AWS customers could be served by something like 10% of their services.

jacquesmtoday at 4:08 PM

Having to roll each of those by your lonesome is still preferable over having some asshole cut you off from the services that you pay for on a whim. And that sort of thing is definitely on the table. Trump came within a hair of starting a shooting war with Europe, that sort of thing tends to cause people to re-evaluate their relationships.