Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

For any start-up that is expecting to work with enterprise customers there is no choice and has been this way for at least 3 years now but to support AWS. This doesn't mean you must use AWS (with Azure close second and GCP irrelevant essentially for most large non-tech customers) for your entire footprint, but you will need to have POP in most regions that the F500 works with strategically. Any enterprise tech founder that utters the word cloud should know this as table stakes to compete for the foreseeable future.



That absolutely makes sense. But you can achieve that by either being able to deploy the client specific bits to AWS for clients that absolutely insist, or by simply deploying proxies and picking and choosing on a per service basis whether or not it makes sense to deploy it to AWS or proxy it to your own infra.


Sure, but there's a fun catch with this strategy. I'm familiar with some companies that refuse to work with vendors that use AWS for production hosting of their footprint because it would be funding their competitor. There's no such thing as a company that contractually requires all of production in AWS though, in contrast, not even AWS.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: