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Surely for any company of size you understand there will still be people managing the AWS infra. Having tens to hundreds of small dev groups go at it willy nill
by stuff4ben 5y ago
Surely for any company of size you understand there will still be people managing the AWS infra. Having tens to hundreds of small dev groups go at it willy nilly is a recipe for disaster and overspending. Someone still has to patch the server instances, manage the people who access it, train them on how to use AWS, etc. Those costs don't go away because you've moved to the cloud.
- mbesto 5y ago> Those costs don't go away because you've moved to the cloud. Sure, but you can go from "I have 5 people managing my 150 instances of SQL Server" to "I have 1 AWS sys admin". The point wasn't that the costs are eliminated, it's that they are baked in.
- NineStarPoint 5y agoGenerally at big companies you needed people to manage the infrastructure, and people to manage the layer on top of that infrastructure though. With clouds you can consolidate those groups into one group that is smaller. I think Cloud still costs more overall, never been convinced it actually saves money. I do think it tends to increase developer velocity though, and that can be worth it.