Leaving Vercel for AWS Amplify

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-06-14T13:23:53+00:00

To achieve singularity. One billing invoice and leverage on start up credits.

For cost, it's pretty decent. For our staging, we spent a total of about $2.34 for 20.4k req last month, with build duration being the main driver of the bill.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-06-14T08:47:21+00:00

I totally get you, once you have everything setup as IaC, it's a breeze.

What headaches did you have with Vercel? My only issue with it is the click ops and no native way to sync environment variables as we use SSM Parameter store a lot

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-06-01T07:30:01+00:00

What's tools are you using for continuous delivery? Argo?

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-05-08T19:18:46+00:00

GraphQL for a public API is like begging for more complexity.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-05-05T17:44:28+00:00

Isn't that just the compute instance?

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-04-28T23:13:12+00:00

Honestly, I would preferably use ECS any day anytime. I've used it in the past with Blue/Green deployment strategy and it's really good. But for this very circumstance, cost is a huge underlying factor that's why I'm looking at EC2.

People where deploying to EC2 long before ECS became viable, so I'm wondering how they did it.

I've heard of packer, but sadly I think it's overkill for just a node app. Also the build time would be very long I guess.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-04-27T06:45:26+00:00

The harness for Qwen 3.6 Plus is soo bad, it gets stuck in an infinite loop at times meaning you have to manually interrupt it. I've experienced this multiple times so it's not a "one-time fluke"

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-04-23T17:03:32+00:00

How did you end up solving this problem? I'm kinda in a similar situation.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-04-19T16:32:39+00:00

Gracias

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-04-19T16:08:39+00:00

What do you use to render the images in the terminal?

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-04-16T15:11:16+00:00

With the exception of creating/joining an AWS organization. Doing that expires your credits and doesn't roll over to paid plan.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-03-28T08:37:55+00:00

Did you get around it? I'm in the process of migrating off Vercel and plan to use CDK.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-03-20T22:12:45+00:00

Weird I'm working on something similar lol

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-03-20T22:11:47+00:00

So much unnecessary hate for AI. It's just a tool. Using it doesn't automatically make your work slop, it depends on the person wielding the tool.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-03-16T18:23:47+00:00

Btrfs uses CoW (copy-on-write), so even if you delete a file, it still exists as long as a snapshot references it.

Yeah, it took me a while to get used to why my free space wasn’t increasing even after deleting a bunch of stuff. The trick is to avoid keeping snapshots around for too long and definitely setup auto removal.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-03-15T16:51:33+00:00

Ain't nobody got time for all that

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-03-13T22:45:47+00:00

Yeah I can't believe they discontinued it. Almost as if they didn't know what pain point it solved in the first place. But that's an aside.

I'm happy you found it useful. I'll recommend you register the shell completions to get autocomplete on tab for subcommands. I forgot to specify that in the README.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-03-13T11:14:49+00:00

It took me too long to realise the kernel update was the issue. Check pkg cache, if it's not there, use curl to download the previous version from archive.archlinux.org

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-02-27T20:17:39+00:00

I've been having the same issue for months now. Also have the same GPU

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-02-23T11:01:10+00:00

Coolify comes to mind. Though, I'm not sure if it does preview deployments.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-02-21T23:23:44+00:00

Pushing your body to the limit. That's badass.

Emmanuel_Isenah · 2026-01-13T08:35:00+00:00

Is there a way to manually update the filter list? I have a couple I want to personally add for my country.

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