What cloud services do you use? (Personal and team)

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[Joe Mainwaring]

I'm probably forgetting some, but this is a fairly comprehensive list of the cloud services I use for work:

• GCP: This is primary cloud provider and we try to stay in-cloud as much as possible.
• AWS: Legacy services that weren't worth the hassle porting to GCP, like s3. Also, we just acquired a company who's product is fully rooted in AWS, so our footprint has expanded.
• MongoDB: MongoDB drives two of the applications that make up our platform.
• MailChimp: Transactional emails (technically this is Mandrill but they dropped the branding?)
• Confluent: Data pipelines within the application
• Hevo: Data pipelines from third-party sources into our BigQuery data warehouse
• Pusher: Real-time notification events for one of our legacy applications
• New Relic: Performance Monitoring
• DataDog: Synthetic Tests
• Sentry: Front end monitoring
• Elastic: For our application's activity feed
• Lokalise: Automated translations using CI/CD
• BrickFTP/Files.com: SFTP option for our customers to transmit HRIS files for processing
• Cloudinary: Image transformations
• Pager Duty: MTTR tool
• Velocity Code Climate: A metrics tool which allows you to measure the performance of your engineers. I know that might sound controversial to some, I would encourage you to read the book Accelerate to understand the value such a tool provides.
• Atlassian JIRA/confluence: Project Management
• Github: Source Control
• Okta: Single-Sign On
• CircleCI: Continuous Integration & Delivery. Check out my post A Litmus Test for CircleCI to understand why we picked Circle
• FreshDesk: Customer-facing support tools
• Slack: Asynchronous Comms
• Zoom: Synchronous comms
• GSuite: Email
• Coder: It's Github Codespaces, but for the enterprise
• Databricks: Data analytics
• GRS: A Third-party rewards fulfillment system with country-specific catalogs
• Catalog API: Another rewards fulfillment service, better suited for domestic (US) audiences
• Lacework: Intrusion Detection and compliance monitoring
• Apptio: BI tool for monitoring your cloud spend

Personally, some services I use in the context of software development:

• Cloudflare: DNS
• Belena.io: IoT management & deployment of containers
• Digital Ocean
• Heroku
• Twilio: SMS messaging
• Stripe: Payments

[Ben Sinclair]

At work, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Acquia, Cloudflare, Mailchimp, and a zillion other things depending on the client - though we're moving to Microsoft-everything at some point because Parent Company Reasons.

Personally, I use Bitbucket/Github for VCS, Google Drive and Dropbox for backups (via Duplicati). That's about it. If I want the world to see a pet project I put it on my creaking, overloaded VPS.

[Posandu]

Heroku
Firebase (Favorite)
Supabase
Backblaze

[Ashwin Hariharan]

• GitHub for open source code
• Gitlab for some private personal projects, and also the code + content of my tech blog
• Netlify for hosting my tech blog
• Heroku for deploying few projects/proof-of-concepts from work and for my tech tutorials
• Namecheap for domains and an official mailbox
• Several AWS services for stuff at work (S3 for large media storage, OpenSearch for Search services, Lambda for serverless functions, etc)

[Liviu Lupei]

We're still using Namecheap as a domain provider.
And we also used them as an official mailbox, but it was a bad experience.

Their Private Email interface was down 5% of the time, with long maintenance windows.
And their IP Reputation was bad as well, a lot of the emails we sent ended up being in Spam folders because of that.
We switched to Google Apps for email and it was an instant boost.

I hope they made some improvements since then.

[Ashwin Hariharan]

Woah, didn't realize that! I probably should go do some reading on this, thanks for letting me know!

[Will Holmes]

Personally:

• Vercel: NextJs hosting
• PlanetScale: Serverless MySQL databases
• Netlify: Small react app hosting
• AWS: Has the easiest to access / manage free tier of all providers imo.
• MongoDbAtlas: Cluster is cool, but limited.

[Muhammad Uzair]

AWS (S3, EC2)
Firebase (push notifications)

[Liviu Lupei]

Found the mobile developer.

[Muhammad Uzair]

Nope, I am Backend developer.

[Conner Ow]

The main cloud service I use daily for playing around is Replit. Otherwise, I use vercel for hosting sites, cloudflare for domain management, and MongoDB for databases.

AWS has traumatized me due to the way their customer service was and how much they charged for hosting a few python websites (Almost $400 a month!)

[Liviu Lupei]

I've been using AWS since 2014.

How did they charge you $400 for hosting a few websites?
What services did you use?
An EC2 instance with 2 GB costs less than $0.02 per hour, which translates into less than $14 per month.

I never contacted their Support for technical questions or issues, since their documentation covered everything I needed.

[Liviu Lupei]

Team:

• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud
• Microsoft Azure
• SendGrid, for sending newsletters,
• Mailgun, for sending transactional emails
• Twilio, for sending SMS messages
• Google Apps (Workspace, etc)
• Endtest, for automated testing and monitoring
• Zoom, for calls
• Slack, for collaborations and some others

[Ishaan Sheikh]

All Microsoft at work.
Personally I use Netlify, heroku, AWS and cloudflare.

[LeoCarrera]

Linode, bitbubket and github