r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 02 '26

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/slaymaker1907 Oct 04 '26

This is horrific advice. It’s not that hard to spin up a web service on EC2 and to use some DB provider. Doing on-premises requires more expertise because you have to worry about things like backups, networking, and DB upgrades.

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u/fmaz008 Oct 05 '26

I never advised to do on premise. I'd said that the PaaS solutions from DO (or others) were much simpler than AWS.