Hacker News Reader

I thought the point of deploying to the cloud using higher level services was so that I could worry about my app and stop worrying about the minutia of managing load balancers or database servers.

Instead of interesting technical challenges I now get to worry about the minutia of Amazon's billing system. Neat! Where do I sign?

View on HN

As with all things, you are trading away old problems for new ones. The question becomes: are the new problems easier for you to solve than the old ones?

There are parts of AWS that feel like magic and parts that cause me to bang my head against the wall, overall I like it more than it annoys me so I use AWS but it’s not a silver bullet and not all workloads make sense on AWS.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com