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cptnbob | 10 years ago

Too much vendor lock in. Will keep my VMs thanks.

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saintfiends|10 years ago

Exactly. What if amazon decides to close your account, because you know.. they can. Now you're pretty much screwed.

With traditional VPS you just point ansible/salt/puppet to new servers and you're good to go.

cptnbob|10 years ago

Ironically this happened to me due to a card expiry fuck up.

bpicolo|10 years ago

Yeah, that's what I think too. This feels too far into the vendor-lockin, downtime death zone, as reliable as Amazon might be.

Plus, while it might be cool for some microservices, it seems like it would be a lot more unwieldy trying to do a full scale application.

Magnets|10 years ago

Or as App engine decided to do, increase prices/decrease quotas. What now? rewrite your code or just pay the new prices.

alexbilbie|10 years ago

Lambda functions are just Docker containers.

API Gateway could be replaced by something like Open Resty.

S3 can be replaced by any other file storage solution.

And language lock-in. So far Lambda supports only Node.js and Java.

brianwawok|10 years ago

Java gets you ruby via JRuby and Python via Jython... (Not sure how current they are these days). So missing C and Rust type stuff I guess?