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The ones thinking that far ahead aren’t using AWS in the first place.
by taneq 5y ago
The ones thinking that far ahead aren’t using AWS in the first place.
- abrookewood 5y agoYep, there the ones with stressed out Ops staff running around replacing hard drives at 3 AM and with managers trying to work out how they are going to pass the next security assessment because they don't handle end-to-end encryption or have sufficient controls in place.
- addicted 5y agoIs this common? My company recently shifted from on prem to cloud. And we aren’t primarily a software company (although, much like most companies, we are increasingly turning into one). We outsourced our data center needs, and I don’t remember us ever facing these middle of the night massive breakdowns (we had load balancing between a couple of data centers) and the number of ops issues hasn’t reduced a bit since the switchover. I do think it’s been easier to improve performance for non US customers, because spinning up servers in data centers across the world seems a little easier around the world, but the millions saved by self hosting would have easily paid for someone to spin us up a Singapore and UK colo servers.
- OldHand2018 5y agoIf you spent $X on a SAN rack 10 years ago, that same $X now buys you a fully-managed rack with NVMe drives and redundant, hot-swappable everything. Your Ops staff will get an email about a drive or hardware failure and the tracking number for the replacement part that’s already left the depot and can be replaced at their leisure.
- ZWoz 5y agoYou experienced badly run shop. You can have remote hands (if you don't have your own DC, but buy colocation service). You have spare disks in server. I don't know, how end-to-end encryption is linked to bare metal, those physical servers are several abstraction levels below.
- pests 5y agoI think the implication was that Amazon provides more than just bare metal to lock you in.