Support for additional cloud providers
Juan C. Andreu
As title says. Some companies have reserve resources or prepaid yearlong subscriptions, so it might be hard for them to have a secondary/redundant infrastructure cost.
I have already read that pluggin in to your own AWS resources is on the roadmap, thats amazing. But if you want to beat everyone in the field, and be trully "just write code and leave the rest to us", then supporting other major cloud providers in the mid term might be a good bet.
I'm thinking of at least Google Cloud and Azure.
I'm pretty sure this is something that you guys already thought about, but I had to leave my feedback anyway :)
Ryan Block
Juan Carlos, we absolutely have, and it's a frequent question – thanks for opening this!
The good news is open core of Begin, Architect (https://arc.codes), was designed with the assumption of eventually going multi-cloud.
However, we also want our customers to be successful utilizing cloud functions and other serverless services, and at the moment AWS is far ahead the competition.
We absolutely look forward to GCP and Azure narrowing AWS's lead, but our current position (and this is constantly under review!) is that from a cloud-functions-as-a-service perspective, being AWS-only is the path to success right now.
Juan C. Andreu
Ryan Block: Me too! For now i'm just playing with begin. And trying to grasp what the limitations are so I can take it into account for any of my next projects.
I really love the dashboard, speed and ease of use.
I believe it can work for full feature projects, but I will totally consider Begin to make my PoCs/design etc in a fast pace environment.
Looking forward to all the planned features and also to see what the pricing model is going to be.
Cheers!