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You are pointing the fingers at the wrong people. Cloud providers pushed this idea onto executives via their marketing and conferencing channels. Not disimilar
by mhitza 10d ago
You are pointing the fingers at the wrong people. Cloud providers pushed this idea onto executives via their marketing and conferencing channels.
Not disimilar to how AI naratives are pushed on executives these last two years.
- albert_e 10d agoBut alongside the marketing blitz they also offer certifications for people who are supposed to execute these projects. Even the most foundational certification exam -- which simply tests your recall on what AWS service is for compute versus networking -- teaches and tests you about "Shared Responsibility Model" that draws the line at what the customer is still responsible for when they use cloud bases IaaS / PaaS / SaaS services. If businesses are going to cloud but without engaging / listening to competent people who know these basics -- then the blame needs to be somewhat pointed back at those very business leaders I feel. This is not obscure magical knowledge either that is tightly controlled. Any cloud vendor will freely teach you that. Or even a google search would.
- lelanthran 10d agoWho is a CEO going to believe? Amazon, Microsoft and the entire IT infra division or that lone SRE who disagrees with them? I mean, every time cloud comes up on HN we see legions of techies posting strowman arguments about why you should offload everything onto AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
- avereveard 10d agoAws cto is basically opening every presentation with a everything breaks all the time slide, idk where you get that idea they oversell the cloud resilience
- silon42 10d agoThey could offer controlled "failure of service" service where they randomly take stuff offline and you have to pay to get it back if you don't have a backup/recovery strategy.
- albert_e 10d agoAWS Fault Injection Service https://aws.amazon.com/fis/ https://aws.amazon.com/fis/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/what-is.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/what-is.htm...
- scott_w 9d agoThe customer CEO never watched that presentation.
- mitxela 10d ago[dead]
- rob74 10d agoYou just have to take a look at the Rube Goldberg-esque abomination that is the AWS web interface for a few minutes to realize that it's not that simple. Granted, most executives won't do that...
- jaggederest 10d agoOr encounter their CLI and it's lovecraftian combination of positional arguments, named arguments, piping, json documents, etc, distributed largely by random lot, as far as I can tell.
- jval43 10d agoNo. If you're the leader you should know what you're leading. It's literally the job. But the problem is right there: "non-technical" leaders. Never work for one if you can avoid it.
- IAmBroom 9d agoAll Tesla employees reading this are fervently agreeing, between their tears. "We should build vacuum delivery tubes for passengers!"