Founder Advice: Choosing the Right Cloud Infrastructure Can Make a Big Difference

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Choosing the right cloud provider can make a big difference in how bumpy the road to success will be. For example, a client’s business was founded on a complex set of integrated ETL (Extraction Transformation Loading) pipelines, each completely containerized but requiring different resources (32 cores here, 8 cores there). Running these on Gcloud required a set of coordinated bash scripts that spun up resources and cleaned them up afterwards (you don’t want a 32 core 128GB machine running any longer than it has to! On AWS we were able to use the [Batch](https://aws.com/cognito/) facility to deploy the pipelines with very little effort.