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

by cptnbob 11y ago

bpicolo 11y 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.
SideburnsOfDoom 11y ago
And language lock-in. So far Lambda supports only Node.js and Java.
- brianwawok 11y 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?
  - alexbilbie 11y ago
    The AWS Lambda team wrote a blog post about how to use Python - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-python-in-an-aws-lambda-function/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-python-in-an-aws-... You can also call native binaries so you therefore you can use languages like Go or C or anything else that statically compiles.
alexbilbie 11y 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.
saintfiends 11y 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 11y ago
  Ironically this happened to me due to a card expiry fuck up.
  - saintfiends 11y ago
    Same thing happened to me. Card got expired but they wouldn't let us add a new card (or payment method as they call it) because the account was in some invalid state. When asked what it was, they couldn't give the details due to legal reasons. It took about 2 months with support (Business support) and finally they chose to close the account. We created a new account with a new card and migrated our AWS infrastructure. Unfortunately we still have to use AWS..for now.
Magnets 11y ago
Or as App engine decided to do, increase prices/decrease quotas. What now? rewrite your code or just pay the new prices.

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

by cptnbob 11y ago

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

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.

SideburnsOfDoom 11y ago

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

brianwawok 11y 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?
- alexbilbie 11y ago
  The AWS Lambda team wrote a blog post about how to use Python - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-python-in-an-aws-lambda-function/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-python-in-an-aws-... You can also call native binaries so you therefore you can use languages like Go or C or anything else that statically compiles.

alexbilbie 11y 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.

saintfiends 11y 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 11y ago
Ironically this happened to me due to a card expiry fuck up.
- saintfiends 11y ago
  Same thing happened to me. Card got expired but they wouldn't let us add a new card (or payment method as they call it) because the account was in some invalid state. When asked what it was, they couldn't give the details due to legal reasons. It took about 2 months with support (Business support) and finally they chose to close the account. We created a new account with a new card and migrated our AWS infrastructure. Unfortunately we still have to use AWS..for now.

Magnets 11y ago

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