Cloud (god do I despise that term despite all this time) services are expensive, which is easy to see past when you're either too big to efficiently find talent to handle the architecture at your scale, or when you're small enough to not have the time to do so.
The fact is, there's a decent chunk of business where you need to store legally extra-sensitive data, and/or where the costs of Cloud services are prohibitive. I host most of my hobby stuff on a single VPS which cost $15 a year. On AWS, that instance costs $55 a year for just the instance (t2.nano) plus all the hidden costs on top of that.
Coder, ex-Canva founding team in Sydney. I joined Elastic to work in releasing team, around CI area. I'm interested in sustainability in cloud computing with Carbonifer
Thanks for your comment. I focused on Amazon and I should not have. Sorry.
I forgot to mention that Amazon is just an example. You can do the same on your VPS, even on your laptop. Look at Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. you can operate your home infrastructure, your extra sensitive on-premise racks, etc. No need to go to the cloud if you don't want to.
For hoobies however, you have plenty of Iaas (Heroku...) a bit cheaper, and also don't forget that Amazon and other providers have Free Tier plans. Your first t2.nano instance is almost free (aws.amazon.com/free/)
For security on Cloud, I'm not sure a small company with on-premises servers can do better than the big fat Amazon and their impressive list of security compliance certificate (ISO 27001, etc) (aws.amazon.com/compliance/). You have sensitive documents: AWS S3 with encryption enabled. Boom. Done. Free (5 Gb free, a good start).
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Cloud (god do I despise that term despite all this time) services are expensive, which is easy to see past when you're either too big to efficiently find talent to handle the architecture at your scale, or when you're small enough to not have the time to do so.
The fact is, there's a decent chunk of business where you need to store legally extra-sensitive data, and/or where the costs of Cloud services are prohibitive. I host most of my hobby stuff on a single VPS which cost $15 a year. On AWS, that instance costs $55 a year for just the instance (t2.nano) plus all the hidden costs on top of that.
Thanks for your comment. I focused on Amazon and I should not have. Sorry.
I forgot to mention that Amazon is just an example. You can do the same on your VPS, even on your laptop. Look at Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. you can operate your home infrastructure, your extra sensitive on-premise racks, etc. No need to go to the cloud if you don't want to.
For hoobies however, you have plenty of Iaas (Heroku...) a bit cheaper, and also don't forget that Amazon and other providers have Free Tier plans. Your first t2.nano instance is almost free (aws.amazon.com/free/)
For security on Cloud, I'm not sure a small company with on-premises servers can do better than the big fat Amazon and their impressive list of security compliance certificate (ISO 27001, etc) (aws.amazon.com/compliance/). You have sensitive documents: AWS S3 with encryption enabled. Boom. Done. Free (5 Gb free, a good start).