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Having talked to AWS evangelists, it seems that they truly believe it cuts costs. In their reality this is true, because an alternative with the same guarantees
by sshine 4y ago
Having talked to AWS evangelists, it seems that they truly believe it cuts costs. In their reality this is true, because an alternative with the same guarantees and risk costs more. The implicit disagreement is that you often don’t need all those guarantees.
- marcosdumay 4y ago> because an alternative with the same guarantees and risk costs more I really doubt this. The one theme you see on almost every AWS proponent is some high amount of delusion about what guarantees AWS actually provides you.
- gmac 4y agoHmm. I guess there's guarantees that it won't happen, and guarantees that if it happens then it wasn't supposed to and can't be your fault, and the latter may still be pretty attractive to some decision-makers.
- marcosdumay 4y ago> if it happens then it wasn't supposed to and can't be your fault Yeah, sure. Nobody gets fired for buying from IBM. Well, if large companies had any competence in decision-making, they would be unbeatable and it would be hopeless to work on anything else at all. So, yeah, that's a public good.