Tobias Schmidt

AWS Made Simple - Overcoming Cloud Complexity

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[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

The 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Page is live! ✨ 🎉
Currently, it includes 14 services/features, and we'll add more to our library every week!

Current catalog includes:
• The Dark Reader Deployment Pattern
• Polling vs. WebSockets via Amazon API Gateway

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

I haven't read every line of a Terraform PR in months and I bet you haven't either.
Something quietly broke in how we review infra over the last year.
Took me a while to put words to it.

As AI is writing most of it now, PRs that used to be 80 lines are 800 now.

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

The gap with Lambda is real.

Maybe it's a priority issue 🤷‍♂️

P.S: here's why Lambda is great and how it actually works ⚡️ https://t.co/FDYX0ce4sp

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

Azure Functions have had years to catch up to Lambda.
Still waiting. 🫠

Cold starts are slow. Deployments are worse. I hit deploy and wait, never quite sure when my code is actually live. Lambda updates go through instantly. In prod that predictability matters!

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

What's frustrating is that Azure gets containers right.
App Service is exactly what AWS AppRunner should have been (RIP AppRunner ☠️)
Azure Container Apps is solid too.
Microsoft knows how to ship great compute products!!

FaaS just isn't one of them.

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

Btw, you already fought with it too I guess: core infra generated faster means state files growing faster too. The state-at-scale problem hits sooner and sooner.

@spacelift wrote a solid guide on exactly that:
https://t.co/FYOO85tJ9H

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

I haven't read every line of a Terraform PR in months and I bet you haven't either.
Something quietly broke in how we review infra over the last year.
Took me a while to put words to it.

As AI is writing most of it now, PRs that used to be 80 lines are 800 now.

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

Spacelift Intelligence (the natural language layer powering AI Intent) is still early access. The orchestration piece is production-ready, Intelligence sits on top!

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

Has anyone run a _real cost comparison_ between the two for a write-heavy workload? Genuinely curious what numbers you're seeing 👀

P.S.: Our S3 infographic breaks down storage classes and when to use each: https://t.co/Kcs0JBbFlC

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

Yeah, I'm also thrilled out about S3 Files.
But it is not necessarily cheaper than EFS!

Storage pricing looks VERY compelling at first: S3 Standard is around $0.023/GB-month vs EFS Standard at $0.30/GB-month
... so a 13x gap on storage alone 🔥

[Tobias Schmidt @tpschmidt_]

The moment you have high-churn small files, it explodes and AWS doesn't make it easy to estimate what you'll actually pay before you're already in production 🤷‍♂️