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AWS survey

by Paul Redman

I recently discovered AWS Device Farm where you can test how your website looks on real hardware (phones, tablets etc). We had an issue with some iPhones, and it was much easier to fix it with access to real hardware in the cloud.

So a quick question: if you use AWS, which of the many services would you recommend?

Looking forward to expanding my horizons!

Paul Redman's avatarPaul Redman
on December 10, 2020
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    Thanks Sheba - interesting.

    At ContractsCounsel we use EC2, RDS and SES, and like you we find it a powerful combination. We also use S3 for storage of larger objects best kept out of the database.

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    • RDS is great for running a relational database with low cost and great tooling around monitoring, backups, redundancy and scaling.
    • MSK is nice for running managed kafka. It’s not cheap, but kafka’s requirements are sometimes easier to satisfy with money rather than lots of devops work. Notice these clusters’ storage can be costly and you can never scale them down (so start with a little and upgrade as you grow).
    • SES is one of the cheapest services for sending emails and is only slightly more work than developer friendly services. It’s great for massive amounts if emails.

    There are obviously a ton of other services (like EC2 or Route53) that are more common, but these are the basic ones to consider which aren’t considered “essentials”.

    When we started SendMan - the decision to use RDS and MSK was an easy one - and we’re happy with it.

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