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Cloud is just a big toolbox of premade tools and resources that you can play with to your hearts content with much of the friction taken out, both technical and
by dageshi 5y ago
Cloud is just a big toolbox of premade tools and resources that you can play with to your hearts content with much of the friction taken out, both technical and bureaucratic.
You pay a higher price for what you use than if you maintain those tools yourself... but you don't have to maintain those tools yourself. It's hardly a buzzword, it's almost defacto standard nowadays.
- calvinmorrison 5y agoThis. On prem required me to do so much ITIL work to get even a switch replaced, now I have a budget on azure I can do whatever the fuck I want
- api 5y agoI think this is an important point. In many cases the benefit of cloud and SaaS is working around your IT department. It's a technical way of going around human management problems.
- betaby 5y agoand then this happen https://twitter.com/pragmaticandy/status/1168916144121634818?lang=en https://twitter.com/pragmaticandy/status/1168916144121634818...
- dageshi 5y agosure, can happen to anyone. Still easier to shunt massive amounts of data between aws regions via amazons pipes than it is to do it yourself.