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Isn't that the point? "Don't build your own infrastructure, outsource to the cloud!" has been the rally call for a decade. It's the entire reason "the cloud" ha
by perrygeo 4y ago
Isn't that the point? "Don't build your own infrastructure, outsource to the cloud!" has been the rally call for a decade. It's the entire reason "the cloud" has any value at all, beyond renting at hardware depreciation rates. Someone else is there maintaining the data center, managing failover, ensuring uptime, etc. by contract.
This press release could easily be interpreted as AWS backpedaling on a commitment to maintain its infrastructure.
- tshaddox 4y agoIsn’t spending a significant portion of resources doing customer-specific work pretty much the opposite of the point? That sounds just like sysadmin work for hire, which is obviously valuable, but is essentially the key distinguishing factor from traditional server computing and cloud computing. Of course at the edges there is always going to be overlap, since important customers will have feature requests and complaints that the cloud providers will learn from.
- perrygeo 4y ago> sysadmin work for hire you'd be shocked to know how many people believe that this exactly what the "cloud" is. these are the people making the support requests.