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"it costs 2x as much but doesn't require me to navigate my messed up IT org" is an underappreciated motivation for a lot of architectures you see people pump.
by steveBK123 3y ago
"it costs 2x as much but doesn't require me to navigate my messed up IT org" is an underappreciated motivation for a lot of architectures you see people pump.
Your IT org political problems may not match, and therefore their architecture may not either. Also there's the question of what problem you are trying to scale at what scale, with what resiliency/uptime requirements, etc...
- jamesfinlayson 3y agoAgreed - I worked at a company that couldn't get some expensive security tool approved so they just bought it off AWS Marketplace. The AWS bill was high enough that the increase wasn't questioned.
- steveBK123 3y agoI've worked at companies doing $2B in profits that had multi-month arguments about $100k on-prem production server refreshes due to more customers doing more transactions. And yet I've been at companies 80% smaller/poorer who didn't notice $60k development environment costs because they were blended into a gigantic AWS bill. The incentives are very very bad.