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stego-tech parent
Seriously. I wrote about it in March and have been banging on this particular drum since my first client demand to move wholesale into AWS.

https://green.spacedino.net/software-is-not-the-service/

For what it's worth, said client could never articulate a reason for why their two 2U servers needed to be in AWS at ~3x the price, only that it had to be done. I've seen dozens more moves since, blindly surrendering sovereignty over their own enterprise in the process.

Best of luck with the EU in their migration journey. I'd love to help (and get me and my loved ones out of the US), but at the very least I'm eager to see more competition from a regime more friendly to (most) human rights.

tonyhart7
"from a regime more friendly to (most) human rights"

what is this mean??? Are you saying US is lead by dictator???

hkpack
Not yet, but it is just irresponsible to wait with hope and prayers.

Some people are just extrapolating and see that US is pregnant with authoritarianism.

belter
I asked specifically about this threat, to two employees of AWS and they laughed on my face. To quote Nigel Farage...I guess they are probably not laughing now....
mistrial9
> could never articulate a reason for why their two 2U servers needed to be in AWS at ~3x the price

specifically, to dis-empower you and others in your guilds ? AWS will turn on and turn off with no labor negotiations, at a known market price. Admins and devs are competition to the decision makers and an unknown entity, asking market prices or more. This is predictable and it is playing out now.

yjftsjthsd-h
Er, so now you're on AWS and instead of paying a sysadmin to run things, you pay a DevOps Engineer™ to run things. Just because it's in The Cloud doesn't magically remove the need to manage it.
freeone3000
You still need an admin for AWS. It doesn’t actually abstract anything about services or workloads; it’s not Heroku.
stego-tech OP
I mean, I know all that now; it's what kicked off my descent into the politics and ideologies I hold near and dear to me now, and revitalized my interest in technology as a means of helping humans instead of amplifying Capital.

My point was, financially and logically, it made (makes) no sense. It's penny-wise and pound foolish, given how (relatively) inexpensive a VMware, Xen, or Hyper-V admin is nowadays compared to anyone with AWS, Azure, or GCP credentials.

mlinhares
China is proof of that with their own universe of cloud services, there's no reason Europe can't be competitive the same way, the talent is there, it needs capital and government push.
tonyhart7
China is one huge economy that centrally planned + strive for sustainable themselves is not easy to achieve for EU
slaw
China software industry is 10 times size of Europe. It is easier when you are big.
disgruntledphd2
It is now, yes. Would it be if the great firewall didn't exist, though?
mlinhares
Still best for them if they develop their own industry.
znpy
> My point was, financially and logically, it made (makes) no sense.

You don't know, but you proved your customer's point, unwillingly.

The thing is, your logic is flawed because it's (incredibly) shortsighted.

> VMware, Xen, or Hyper-V admin

Those three things essentially do the same thing, yet they're completely different beasts. You have to look for people knowledgeable on that specific product, and you might not find them.

When dealing with AWS EC2 instances? A lot more people with standardized competencies.

For companies it's just great because they can hire from a much larger pool of candidates.

It's great for workers too, because they can pick my skills and go work at another company where I'll be immediately productive, meaning they'll have a much smoother onboarding process (learning the business domain rather than fighting the technology).

watermelon0
Same applies for clouds, each is a completely different beast. You have AWS EC2, GCE, Azure VM, and others.

The main difference between cloud vs on-prem/colo/dedicated is that you need SRE/DevOps for the first, and sysadmins for the second.

immibis
> VMware, Xen, or Hyper-V admin

What happened to the idea of just running a program on a machine?

Or Kubernetes. Everyone loves Kubernetes, why not use it?

mistrial9
yes I agree, more than I can say in a short post
immibis
AWS is also hard to administer. Sure you don't have to deal with physical hardware, but you don't at Hetzner, either.
ranger_danger
I have never had any issues with AWS, and I don't know anyone else that has either. I'm sure some might consider it difficult, but I don't think that the vast majority do, and I don't consider that enough of a reason to blanket state that it's hard for everyone... otherwise they wouldn't be using it anyway.
immibis
Are you using it for virtual servers or for all their serverless stuff?

I've never had any issues with real servers, either. Not even a hard drive failure (touch wood). I'm sure some might consider servers difficult, but [the rest of your comment]

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