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.

  • loudwhisperOP
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    5 months ago

    cognito auth

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.