title: Which is better: Parse or AWS
body: <p>I'm working on an ebook store application (my target users will be 10,000 users per months). It's very hard to make up my mind to select the backend between AWS and Parse. </p>
  
  <p>Parse is very simple to use. It could save me one or two months development work. But I'm concerning about the number of requests per month. There are free 1,000,000 requests. But I don't know how they calculate the number of requests. I tested with the demo application. A simple run cost me 4 requests (there seems to be only one request in the code.). I totally have no clue 1,000,000 requests can server how many users.</p>
  
  <p>AWS is free at the first year. It's more flexible. I can control almost everything. The problem is I have to do everything from scratch. Database, Web service, security, server management. Also it's very difficult to estimate the cost. </p>
  
  <p>I'd like to hear your opinions about the cost, performance, scalability, security, etc. Thanks</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit at 16th Nov. 2016:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Parse.com will terminate at 28th Jan. 2017. But it will provide a open source version. I personally think it's even better because I can host our own data at anywhere I like, for example, at AWS.</p>