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I still want an in house datacentre. Our move to cloud has a 5x cost increase. We need more staff to run it as well (!).

• dathinab 3y ago
  ah yes -- you need less people -- is probably the biggest lie of modern cloud through technically it should be that way so I would argue the current cloud infrastructure is seriously messed up
  • nikau 3y ago
    With cloud you can have less staff, but you need to pay more per headcount as they need to know how to manage tens if not hundreds of different services. Traditional on-prem has silos where the DBA just knows databases and their salary is capped because of that. I guess in theory you could have a "cloud DBA", but in my experience every business unit wants to keep autonomy over their cloud account/project and do it all in house to get rid of the delays that occur with centralized resources.
    • dathinab 3y ago
      > With cloud you can have less staff, but you need to pay more per headcount I would disagree in my experience this isn't the case at all through having less more experienced (and in turn well payed) personal is always a thing no matter weather you speak about on-prem or cloud and there really is no reason you need to do on-primise like the siloed "Traditional on-prem" as you describe. I would even say that especially for smaller companies they stopped doing on-prem that way even before the cloud became widely relevant. I mean it's just not feasible and there really isn't a fundamental reason why you have to silo yourself in that way just because you are on-prem.