You don’t go for AWS for EC2.
You go for AWS because in half a day you can whip up a secure, managed and auto scaling app using their proprietary services like SQS, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Dynamo etc.
You go for AWS because in half a day you can whip up a secure, managed and auto scaling app using their proprietary services like SQS, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Dynamo etc.
They all start out starry-eyed thinking they're the next unicorn and oh-my-gawd what if we start getting the kind of traffic Facebook gets tomorrow?! That's just not a reality. Facebook themselves didn't get that traffic for several years.
if you have one node you still need to do backups and s3 is just way easier. also when you abstract your storage your application has a way better structure. I already refactored tons of applications where System.IO or java.io were all over the place. with object storage from the start, you barely run into that problem.