Is Amazon Web Services Really Worth It? | AWS, GCP, Azure, Vultr, Digital Ocean, & Linode Compared

[@opendebate]

If you see there's a certification for using the platform, you know that shit ain't easy.

[@Chatsworth1979]

Big Azure fan here. I let my AWS certification lapse to spend time certifying for Azure. Worth it, love it! Nice vid. +1

[@ricko13]

AWS is great but they just needed to hire some experts in UI and UX designers for their console/panel

[@Craylor]

Amen!! Haha

[@TheLostBijou]

Lately they've made some improvements, but overall...YOU ARE SO RIGHT! It would help if they could recognize, for example, that people tend to understand their own names ('tags') instead of stuff like 'i-15184afffe232'

[@tehseenkhan2286]

thank you for taking the time to explain this to us.

[@Elvis0]

Gilfoyle!!!

[@Craylor]

Haha yes! I keep getting this comment - maybe I need to watch Silicon Valley 🤔

[@Amin3D1]

Hahaha 1 seconds in the vid and decide to comment the same lol.

[@ericjou094]

I wish I had this informations years ago thank you.

[@Craylor]

Thanks for your support!

[@bolow]

What I love about Linode is the reliability, banks here in Africa are not reliable and block the payments many times for no clear reason. Other VPS services cut my service and don't wait me to fix the payment immediately. If Linode cuts my service it's because I'm already in the next month and was given enough time to either fix the issue or ask for extension after explaining why that happened. That is the main reason I'll stick with them so my clients can have reliable service regardless of my bank issues. Maybe this is because I've been using them for more than 6 years. Also their customer care is the best in my experience, and their services add new features regularly.

[@MediMizerSoftware]

Great presentation. Very clear speaker. AWS - We set up some free servers. One we were not using started billing us. Not much. We had enabled a feature for our test install. But it emphasizes the complexity of knowing what you would pay. After a year, we have no idea what it would cost if we fully hosted on AWS. Azure is interesting to us because our product uses SQL backend.

[@MediMizerSoftware]

Comments on Google - For sure, Google has terrible management interfaces. 500 things to do. Support recommends 5. Can I put those 5 in favorites? Nope. You have to remember the 12 clicks to find them every time.

[@khalidelgazzar]

Thank you for the great video I watched it like 2 years ago and I came again for a refresher

[@Wanderer2035]

I feel like a cloud service isn’t worth using if it’s so complicated that you can devote your whole career to and still not understand it all, it shouldn’t be that complicated. For AWS, Amazon should split up the platform into 3 parts so each part can be a lot more simplified, instead of putting it all in one mountain and you have to sift your way through. That’s why I go with smaller more simplified platforms.

[@sgguitarfan7]

deploying anything on any of these platforms, becomes easy by using containers

[@kaojaicam]

I would love a breakdown looking more in-depth at the major players. Something like AWS vs GCP and whether or not they can replace something like Bluehost for a small business

[@Craylor]

Great idea! AWS or GCP could definitely replace a solution like Bluehost and probably offer a faster and more reliable end product, but you really have to have someone who knows what they are doing managing it. Cloud platforms have very complex panels and require a lot of knowledge to navigate.

[@sadiquehasnain2028]

Thanks for clearing my doubts

[@akin242002]

Great video! I'm starting with AWS, but I always lean to the path of least resistance. Therefore, I may need to try Microsoft Azure.

[@Craylor]

Give it a try! I bet you'll be surprised by the simplicity of the UI compared to AWS. Both are great for different reasons though.

[@nikitamikhailov9534]

If you are looking for an easy way, then it is better to pay attention to G-core labs. They are much easier to work with than Azure.

[@TheLostBijou]

AWS can be simple...but overtime, the more sophistication and capability that is added, the harder it is to see the forest for the trees, so to speak.

[@sjatkins]

For the techies you could have talked about technical infrastructure bits offered. For instance the GC pub-sub is MUCH more useful and cost effective than anything similar on AWS imho.

[@akin242002]

Agreed. I started with AWS, but got won over with GCP after finding out it saves 40% to 50% for similar cloud service. VMs 40%+ in savings. AWS only wins in lowest latency.

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great video and great comparison. Thanks!

[@Craylor]

Thanks Khalid!

[@relaxingsounds7256]

Thanks man .. which one is the best for gaming

[@guanacodevs]

I like to use GCP because of my android apps, is easy once you get used to. Besides I like to have full control, I like the wordpress thingy, but sometimes, so many plugins that made my life easy, makes me lazy no to learn. Is hard doing things from the ground up but the learning does not have price. Not to mention that I'm paying little to no money for hosting.

[@Craylor]

Totally! If you’re doing a custom platform beyond a basic website, using a cloud platform is a must.

[@ayushshaw3681]

I have tried many cloud providers, Azure is the best. It is easy to use. Worst of all is Google Cloud Platform. It is too confusing.

[@alexmayer8943]

AWS may not be in Colleges but there are courses that make you AWS Certified Operator so yeah there's classes for it. If you don't learn it then it's a waste of time and money but if you do then you chose the best in its class.

[@liquidmetalrob]

Thanks Craylor, this is really useful

[@Craylor]

You're welcome. Thanks for stopping by!

[@KenSherman]

7:00 AS A COMPANY, #Linode (acquired by #AkamaiTechnologies just 5 months ago) is almost the oldest. Along with #Azure @13:31, they are #NetworkChuck Keith's favorite. Surprised it's yours 2. And no I don't have a fave...yet. Great review!

[@pastlife13137]

“A man who has never eaten a pork bun is never a whole man!” - Sleeping dogs

[@appstuff6565]

Hey Craylor, thanks for making this. Is there an updated video related to this in 2024?

[@tegaogheneovo5881]

Porkbun just got me a cheaper deal on my domain.😁thanks.

[@techycompute3636]

You should review ibm cloud and oracle cloud.

[@Craylor]

That would be interesting! I've always wondered about IBM Cloud.

[@westganton]

Would be interesting to see the comparison, but I would hate to see either IBM or Oracle capture any more market share

[@Amin3D1]

Linode vs AWS LightSail For medium websites (100k visits from multiple websites).

[@itsmisterchris]

Which cloud has best customer support? Like withing 5-15 mins .n not like that bs where u gotta pay shyt laod of money to get a respnse in n hr lol

[@bdr420i]

There is literally millions of IT graduates with no job, please use them for those mission or work or whatever. Just tell them what you want and they'll do it for you and don't be cheap when paying them because remember those are human being who studied about fixing computers just like doctors 🤷🏼

[@alexmayer8943]

You don't like Microsoft and its services but you used them everyday before you got to Azure and still use them today and will still use them in the future. Their services are used by everyone even if they don't realize it.

[@pauls9783]

pork bun sounds great for buying domains...where would you go to sell domains? thanks

[@Craylor]

I don't have experience selling domains, but I hear of Sedo a lot. I've never sold a domain before though, so I'd ask around on the NamePros forum site.

[@ludens1667]

You have upgrade tour background scene ...Nice!!

[@Craylor]

Yes! I'm loving the new set.

[@jtvlogs6711]

whats the difference between ec2 and lamda functions?

[@akin242002]

Lamda functions are for rarely used functions or programs. Great for quartly reports or weekly unit tests. You only get billed when the program or functions are used, aka event driven. EC2 are just VMs with the capability to include docker containers and Kubernetes. This is where your most frequently used programs are used. Although you will get billed as long as the VMs are on, regardless if the programs are being used or not.

[@miamiles7996]

I'm looking for a company to use so I can stream videos 24/7

[@ludens1667]

Quick question All the above you mentioned could web host then why do i need to go to another web hosting company/

[@Craylor]

It's personal preference! All of these cloud platforms are capable of hosting your website. It's really overkill to have your own server just to host one website, though, and that's what these platforms are offering. If you want shared web hosting where your site is put on a server with many other sites, you'll need to get that from a place like Namecheap or Dreamhost.

[@selvakumarmurugesan9013]

Lots of hype about Vultr but it doesn't serve good for scale. Their server slows and getting 524 errors

[@ericjou094]

hello Christian, hope you are good. I'm looking for e-commerce not too complicated to operate, any advice.

[@Craylor]

If you want simple e-commerce, I would go with Shopify if you can afford it. Otherwise, WooCommerce (WordPress plugin) and any web hosting will work. WooCommerce is more cluttered and hard to use though.

[@theinfospot7335]

You looked like Chuck Mangione

[@mrceditz8526]

which is good for wordpress hosting, AWS or GCP ?

[@Craylor]

Both will be great for WordPress. Just make sure using a cloud platform is right for you to begin with.

[@CheevoCheevo]

Of these two options, AWS would be the best, but I would recommend getting acquainted with G-core, I have been working with them for several years and successfully.

[@theoryofthemobius]

I'm a Laughing Squid guy.

[@Craylor]

Nice! I'm not familiar with Laughing Squid.

[@glitchy_star_classes6276]

comparison starts at 10:30

[@oscarmontescamberos1018]

nope, it starts at 2:22

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

Stay away from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

@GreenJordan 30 they stolen your data

[@workinggirljapanese]

Hope you can also cover Alibaba cloud... ~new subscriber here~ getting my feet wet on AWS and so far so good, just not satisfied with SES though...

[@dailymeow3283]

Hey, thank you for the video, how usually someone hosts a website that been made on Visual Studio Code

[@ayaneshsarkar7804]

I love all these, even mine is hosted there. But in India, I believe buyers don't even know the name of these, they just want you to host on cPanel. AWS is too "tough" to understand for them.

[@Craylor]

To be honest, that's common around here too. These platforms are for enthusiasts or those who need their own server for a specific purpose. The majority of websites are hosted on shared or managed hosting, and the average person can get around cPanel good enough to get the job done.

[@ayaneshsarkar7804]

@@Craylor you are right. But as a Dev, I know there are few limitations in shared hosting. You don't even get to notice those in small projects but if the project is enterprise level you need more freedom when you are accessing SSH. There's no problem with the VPS, but I believe AWS is much better when it comes to that. Again, you are right, cPanel is user friendly and it's easier for the client.

[@Mikhai_nik]

I've worked with better companies. Amazon is doing great, but their treatment of you as a customer is disappointing. Could do better with their resources.

[@CheevoCheevo]

I work with G.core, it's much easier to set up, they have good technical support, which I can't say about AWS.