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> your organisation is so inefficient Very few organizations are able to stay efficient on the long run as they scale. This is a simple matter of processes bei
by belval 3y ago
> your organisation is so inefficient
Very few organizations are able to stay efficient on the long run as they scale. This is a simple matter of processes being stacked on top of processes and inter-departement frictions. That complexity is inherent to having regulations and laws that you need to comply with that become hard requirements.
For a more concrete example think of HIPAA compliance, during an audit you can have everything on-prem and hope that your IT department actually understand the security and privacy boundaries or have everything in AWS and be compliant because they conform to the standard by default.
> syphon off any profitability
For most of those businesses software is not the profitable bit, it's a cost center like most other things that serve to support operations. In that context, migrating your code to AWS/GCP/Azure means very little cost inflation.
- ilc 3y agoJust because AWS is HIPAA compliant, doesn't mean what you do there is :). But at least it solves the basics.
- monocasa 3y agoI think their point is that it gives you a relatively stable env, and allows you to be the one deploying and configuring infrastructure. Anything that can be miscommunicated to client on-prem deployment staff will be, in a lot of cases breaking guarantees like HIPAA compliance.
- jeanlou 3y agoThat's just nitpicking
- ilc 3y agoNot really. So much of HIPAA is actually getting the administration right.
- delfinom 3y ago>Very few organizations are able to stay efficient on the long run as they scale Simply using AWS doesn't do anything to help with this in that same long run. Give it a decade or two and those same organizations will suddenly have multiple bureaucratic departments to approve new AWS resources and spending. All AWS is offering is a channel that a bureaucratic process hasn't been developed for _yet_ and the organizations hivemind response is to allow its usage freely because it doesn't fit in the existing form template of rules
- pixl97 3y ago>Give it a decade or two A decade or two is someone else's problem.
- jeanlou 3y agoGood luck maintaining your own infra, server, system middle war combo. It's a whole area in itself. Let the specialists do it and focus on your core business. Saying otherwise is just a lack of pragmatism.
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