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Aren't we facing the exact same problem, but now rehashed in the cloud? A lot of companies are running applications that rely heavily on AWS managed services.
by toomanybeersies 6y ago
Aren't we facing the exact same problem, but now rehashed in the cloud?
A lot of companies are running applications that rely heavily on AWS managed services. If you're tied to DynamoDB or Athena, you're in no better position than being tied to IBM mainframes.
- lstamour 6y agoThat's absolutely true. Though with one small exception - most mainframes I hear about don't seem to be hosted in the cloud yet. I imagine cloud hosting of mainframe workloads is possible if and when moving to virtualization becomes an easy, supported service (if it isn't already, of course) and is perhaps just as cost effective but with different security features and deployment models available due to operating in the cloud? For example, it might make on-site maintenance a thing of the past or lead to new managed services? I'm absolutely not going to say that the cloud alone leads to cost savings, it probably doesn't. For true cost savings in the cloud you often need to re-architect the app and change business and IT processes to match what the cloud can offer, I'd think. Besides possible security benefits, if a workload takes hours to run, the cloud could allow you to parallelize the workload and run jobs as test cases, maybe?