AWS really does make the Pain of Purchasing Servers go away
I have thought a lot about how I used to provision traditional IT resources, and how differently I would provision Amazon Web Services resources in the cloud today. Maybe you can benefit from my perspective, based on experience, that keeps it plain and simple.
In the past, I had to think about how much hardware and software I could buy with a given budget. I would over-engineer the architecture, since I would have to live with it for several years. It was better to be safe with more than I could use, than be sorry trying to explain why the money already spent wasn’t enough. Building a whole test system up front to prove it would work would also increase costs, Read More