Most work isn’t greenfield.
AWS can be used in a different, cost effective, way.
It can be used as a middle-ground capable of serving the existing business, while building towards a cloud agnostic future.
The good AWS services (s3, ec2, acm, ssm, r53, RDS, metadata, IAM, and E/A/NLBs) are actually good, even if they are a concern in terms of tracking their billing changes.
If you architect with these primitives, you are not beholden to any cloud provider, and can cut over traffic to a non AWS provider as soon as you’re done with your work.
AWS can be used in a different, cost effective, way.
It can be used as a middle-ground capable of serving the existing business, while building towards a cloud agnostic future.
The good AWS services (s3, ec2, acm, ssm, r53, RDS, metadata, IAM, and E/A/NLBs) are actually good, even if they are a concern in terms of tracking their billing changes.
If you architect with these primitives, you are not beholden to any cloud provider, and can cut over traffic to a non AWS provider as soon as you’re done with your work.