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Apples to apples, how does a hypothetically goonish IT department screw up a managed service in the same way they can building up from bare metal?
by ethbro 7y ago
Apples to apples, how does a hypothetically goonish IT department screw up a managed service in the same way they can building up from bare metal?
- YawningAngel 7y agoMy first thought is spaffing huge piles of money up the wall by using expensive stuff like DynamoDB really inappropriately, but I think in general AWS is complicated in a way paying someone to plug in colo servers isn't and thus offers more scope to waste money. For random anecdata purposes, I saved $20k /month turning off unused stuff at my ~$50k /month most recent gig. Now scale that up to $1B /year
- ethbro 7y agoAbsolutely on wasted money and an easier path to financially foot-gunning. But my point was more that managed services do make it harder to technically foot-gun. When there are limited options exposed by an abstraction layer, there are limited mistakes an ignorant user can make.