I hope this won’t be counted as some form of self-promotion, even though I am sharing a post from my own blog.
As a tech worker who works in a Cloud shop, I wanted to elaborate the many reasons why I find working with Clouds terrible, from multiple points of view.
I tried to organize my thoughts in a (relatively long) post, in which both technical aspects and political aspects (which are very related) are covered.
I am sure many people will have different perspectives, and this could be potentially also a nice prompt for a discussion.
Yep. My first move is to ask "could this just live in an ec2 box? Do we really need any of aws’ marketed custom options?
But then I would ask, what’s the point of paying 10-20x per computing unit at that point? If you just use ec2 instance, all AWS offers you is an API to manage them, is it worth the premium? Besides, you will still need to mess with a lot of other services (VPCs, SGs, etc.) anyways.
What’s the selling point in your opinion?
Well I would have more questions, like why AWS at all.
But for some, cognito auth management is important, to align with other product goals.
But then at that point you are already vendor-locked, right? At that point, running on bare ec2 instances and taking more control in your hands (vs using even more AWS-specific services) is going to help very little, when your whole user management is now tied to a specific provider.
The concerns of product auth and isolated ec2 driven work are two separate conversations.
If there is zero contact with AWS services (and ad you say, locks) then I would keep asking questions about why AWS is a good choice at all.