What is the basis for creating a peer group (dubbed FAMGA) or unrelated businesses? Comparing Facebook’s growth (a social media platform) to Amazons (retail and cloud computing) seems pointless.

An important distinction re: territorial taxes is that if there is no settlement of the difference between a foreign tax rate and a home country tax rate then companies are incentivized to artificially earn as much of their income as possible in low tax jurisdictions.

The public facing platform is just one of many products twitter offers. They also offer advertising that is probably considered its own product...

You can also do C# now and there is methods to get Scala and Go. Lots of choices for language.

We initially wanted to deploy simple scala services to lambda, but the ramp up time is just too slow. This is an issue when you have very few requests (your container is stopped and started) or many requests (more containers have to be started) We now only deploy js and go to lambda and both work great. Curious to to learn how the c# runtime behave in these scenarios.

The cost ceiling are the initial resource limits. Maybe you can ask them to lower the limits?

Not for bandwidth, though. That's where AWS gets you. All the complaining of server costs are the AWS of yesteryear - servers are pretty similar in costs to competitors now. But traffic doesn't have any caps that I'm aware of.

They put the caps on to help with the very problem you are all bitching about; provisioning a ton of resources and getting a big bill. It's very easy to raise the cap.

I wasn't complaining about that. I've had 2-3 day turnarounds on "everything is broken" events on normal AWS VPC. Always factor their support offering in as well.

What level of support did you have? I've been on developer or first-level business support, and generally get someone knowledgeable; only the timing changes.

The only bad experience I had was with SES - we got blocked by high bounce rate, sending to a test email that did not exist (specifically because it was a test email). It took two days for the special unblock team to unblock us, even though the general support guy I was talking to had responded a couple of times in that wait period.

Zero to start with, now business. Business is "ok" - sometimes takes a couple of attempts to get someone who knows what they are talking about.

I suspect that the VPS cap is more about discouraging large AWS users from spinning up a zillion to reduce egress costs.

The main purpose of AWS's cap is to prevent abuse.

It can power a front end. It's like a micro container as a service.

As long as you don't mind 3s startup latency, or 200ms hot path latency?

That's a horrible and flat out wrong answer. Docker simply provides a transferable containerized execution environment for processes with a simple push pull workflow.

Lambda is a fully elastic infrastructure you can build, deploy, and execute functions.

Simply having docker-engine and docker-cli installed on my machine doesn't give me anything close to lambda.

Using a framework like server less or chalice makes it incredibly easy for an MVP

Thanks for the recommendations. Any experience with how these hold up as they scale up?