Three Signs It’s Time to Get Off Amazon’s Cloud

Grazed from Wireld. Author: Joshua McKenty.

The Discovery Center in Times Square has a fascinating exhibit of sculptures built out of Legos. Human figures of various sorts emerge from the blocks, providing a similar feeling to the exhibition of partially finished sculptures of Michelangelo, which are in the same gallery in Florence that houses his famous statue of David. Looking at these sculptures and thinking about Michelangelo led me to consider building a replica of David out of Legos (note to self: it’s been done).

In the computing business, we have a new sort of Legos: those created by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Because they are exciting and new and can solve many different computing problems, people often get the idea that you can and should build everything out of them. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should. What are the signs that AWS is not a good fit for an application?…

What’s Leading You to Amazon?

Both business and technology advantages attract people to AWS, and the fit, or lack thereof, can occur in both dimensions. From a technology perspective, AWS bricks aren’t really Legos; that is, they aren’t just a shape. Each brick is an engine that must be monitored and operated reliably as part of a larger system. EC2 is a computer. S3 is a storage system. RDS is a database…

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