> I'm intentionally being vague when I talk about "solutions" and solving business problems. I do not mean it should be an app, a product or even have a UI. A c

> I'm intentionally being vague when I talk about "solutions" and solving business problems. I do not mean it should be an app, a product or even have a UI. A cron job running a shell script to copy files from one place to another may very well be the right solution to some business requirements. Completely true, but instead this would be an event-driven serverless microservice that does some complex ETL thing to move files between three S3 buckets before landing in a "data lake" where analysts run three queries a month. (I've seen many of these exact scenarios) Upthread regarding astronauts is absolutely correct---there's been years and years of incentives to create messes like this, and yes, cloud providers absolutely facilitate this, and in many cases are the direct cause.