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I also wonder if they're pushing this for lock-in reasons. If they make everyone architect in this way then people need more load balancers, NAT gateways, firew
by api 6y ago
I also wonder if they're pushing this for lock-in reasons. If they make everyone architect in this way then people need more load balancers, NAT gateways, firewalls, and other complexity, and they charge for all that.
- jiggawatts 6y agoI have noticed that the cloud vendors seem to drag their feet on trivial free features that would undermine the need to use some expensive offering that auto scales to match your credit rating. For example, Azure Network Security Groups (NSGs) have some glaring omissions that were ignored for years, but have just recently been oh-so-conveniently resolved by Azure Firewall. The old NSGs were free, the firewall costs money, and they also charge per gigabyte of data transferred through it! Of course, they're recommending that all customers should immediately "uplift" their network architectures to plumb everything through a central firewall. For security. You know, income security. For Microsoft. I should go buy some AMZN and MSFT...
- api 6y agoBig cloud figured out how to monetize the tendency of most programmers to overthink, over-architect, and over-engineer everything. It's as if the authors of the old design patterns book found a way to charge for every singleton and factory. Brilliant! Bucking this trend and building an "Internet-style architecture" is a competitive advantage. You can save multiple orders of magnitude on your hosting and bandwidth costs.