> Is "you don't need AWS" a trendy counterculture thing? It's this. There's a growing counterculture that likes to hate on Big Tech, and a lot of these folks d

> Is "you don't need AWS" a trendy counterculture thing? It's this. There's a growing counterculture that likes to hate on Big Tech, and a lot of these folks do so by making disingenuous criticisms against Big Tech. These criticisms are usually low-effort and inaccurate but the authors know they'll get upvotes and spread their screed because of how popular it is to hate on big tech in these countercultures. It's a shame because there's certainly valid, deep criticisms to offer Big Tech but once it became counterculture-popular to hate on Big Tech then people just began taking potshots where they can. Criticizing the cloud is a popular one because a lot of engineers genuinely don't know a lot about ops and don't know what a cloud is and isn't, they just use it because a senior engineer at their company made the (usually reasonable) decision to opt into a cloud. Alternatively they're junior engineers that have only written software on their machines and don't know what the difference is between running on a local Linux machine and running a net-connected service. That makes it fertile ground to make unsubstantiated claims because most engineers don't actually understand what's happening.