Ask HN: Why people still use GCP and AWS?

Posted by wasimsk |4 hours ago |8 comments

aosaigh 2 hours ago[1 more]

I haven't used Cloudflare specifically for infrastructure but PAAS offerings like this have huge vendor lock-in which is a big risk. Not to mention if that feature you need isn’t supported by their abstraction you’re out of luck.

grugdev42 3 hours ago[1 more]

Because they don't offer the most basic service... virtual machines.

Not everyone is making serverless JS web applications!

Most of the time, people need a Linux server they can SSH into.

Cloudflare don't offer this, so I continue to use AWS.

AnonyMD 4 hours ago[1 more]

And don't forget Tunnel! It's a magical invention that lets us host websites while keeping our server firewalls closed!

skele 4 hours ago[1 more]

Does Cloudflare have equivalent of GCP's Kubernetes Engine?

wasimsk 4 hours ago[1 more]

I can't figure it out why we are obsessed with AWS and GCP!