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Just because you are using AWS/GCP/Azure doesn't mean that you don't need sysadmins. They are called DevOps engineers then.
by foepys 5y ago
Just because you are using AWS/GCP/Azure doesn't mean that you don't need sysadmins. They are called DevOps engineers then.
- paulgb 5y agoThe budget lists system administration cost at $12,875.29. Presumably that's not a full-time sysadmin. And there's no line-item for a devops engineer. So administration costs aren't zero today, but I suspect they'd be higher if they moved off the cloud.
- brianwawok 5y agoI scaled my SaaS pretty far with no sysadmin nor Devops, nor any plans to acquire either. I know enough to setup some cloud servers, but I’m not qualified to manage barebones Linux at scale. The hacker news go rent a Hertzer trope is rather tired. If it was better, why aren’t more people picking it?
- vasco 5y agoThe type of people that colocate or generally avoid the cloud for cost reasons in my experience don't overlap a lot with the "I write blog posts about everything I do" crowd.
- noogle 5y agoBecause often someone else is paying for it (organization/investor/government) or the money cannot be used for something else. Another common reason is as a way to circumvent internal politics. In my experience, whenever someone actually had to "foot the bill" for the AWS premium, your argument that the cloud is cheaper overall came under a very heavy scrutiny, including justifying those extra "9s" that increase administration effort.