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Discussion on: What Amazon Web Services do you use?

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Akash Kava

S3 and SES are only two non vendor locking services that we use. Anything else creates a strong vendor lock, leading to exponential increase in cost with growth. SNS is good for very small amount of workload. For large volume, it is expensive compared to simple node service running as simple micro service.

Self managed micro services are little pain to write and manage. But on long run you will have freedom to move your infrastructure to any other provider easily.

In fact we have setup S3 with complete replication on Azure, so region outage is never an issue and data loss is also not an issue.