Who cares when you can accidentally bankrupt your company with the wrong keystroke?
Time to spin up is nice for prototypes, it can be very freeing.
The mistake that people make is assuming AWS can host things better than they can, since they’re only mere mortals: it leads to a sort of learned helplessness where you assume the cost of a thing is it’s true value and not an egregious markup.
My biggest gripe with these cloud providers (except maybe GCP) is that they promise less ops work and it can be true in the beginning; but over time the ops work becomes basically the same burden except esoteric to the provider.
It’s IBM mainframes again, with specialists on IBM pushing more IBM because it’s their bread.
But overall, if you know your problem then time to create an instance isn’t very valuable, believe it or not: the majority of workloads are not excessively elastic, at least the upper bound is not unlimited like many people seem to claim.
Apart from that !cloud != self-hosted. There’s plenty of hardware providers that can get you a dozen machines in under an hour; even discounting virtual host providers like vultr and Tulsa.
Time to spin up is nice for prototypes, it can be very freeing.
The mistake that people make is assuming AWS can host things better than they can, since they’re only mere mortals: it leads to a sort of learned helplessness where you assume the cost of a thing is it’s true value and not an egregious markup.
My biggest gripe with these cloud providers (except maybe GCP) is that they promise less ops work and it can be true in the beginning; but over time the ops work becomes basically the same burden except esoteric to the provider.
It’s IBM mainframes again, with specialists on IBM pushing more IBM because it’s their bread.
But overall, if you know your problem then time to create an instance isn’t very valuable, believe it or not: the majority of workloads are not excessively elastic, at least the upper bound is not unlimited like many people seem to claim.
Apart from that !cloud != self-hosted. There’s plenty of hardware providers that can get you a dozen machines in under an hour; even discounting virtual host providers like vultr and Tulsa.