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Didn’t AWS just move some of their infrastructure off of oracle because it basically took them a decade to figure out how?
Yes and AWS also built multiple database types to meet their needs. Is your company going to do the same?
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Anyone who is not concerned about lock in is a fool. There are many fools in business.
I would note that F500 companies are going to have the resources to move out of lock in if it came down to it, and AWS sales management knows it and would have to negotiate costs with that in mind. Smaller scale companies than the F500 that don't have that kind of leverage have to concern themselves more w/ lock-in.
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Anyone who is not concerned about lock in is a fool. There are many fools in business.
Everything in life is about risk vs reward. Platform lock in is a risk. The reward is faster time to market, thus making more money earlier, thus having more means to ameliorate your risks.
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Anyone who is not concerned about lock in is a fool. There are many fools in business.
Any of the companies I've worked with (and I've worked with many) are large enough and have been around long enough to understand that re-architecting apps, doing lift-and-shifts, re-training employees, or anything like that is an inevitable cost of doing business that is going to happen every couple of years no matter what, so any time fretting about "lock in" would ultimately be a waste of time. And perhaps more im…
Like the commentator you responded to said. There are many fools in business.
I wonder if Amazon’s theory here is that by offering multi-cloud support they can put decision makers at ease when choosing cloud vendors by making them feel like they’re not getting locked into AWS - but Amazon also expects most customers to mostly only use AWS out of convenience Disclaimer - I used to work for AWS
I've worked as a consultant in this area for years with large F500 companies and not once have I heard anyone actually be concerned with the "lock in" boogeyman. There used to be a lot of concern around general trust of the cloud, which drove people to stick to on-prem servers. But "lock in", IME, is only something people fret about on HN. What I think is happening is that companies are starting to gain more experien…
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Don’t forget their ElasticSearch version. Now that is a shit show.
Why is it a shit show?
https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally...
Unrelated but is ACG a good learning platform? I'm never sure with these types of platforms because I am not interested in any certifications and such, so it is hard to tell whether they just teach the stuff needed for these certifications and nothing more...
ACG employee here so grain of salt, etc - but I paid for an ACG subscription long before I worked there. My favorite piece of ACG actually isn't even the courses, but "Cloud Playground", which came over in the recent Linux Academy acquisition. [0] One-click AWS, Azure, or GCP sandbox environments. They're live for 4 hours on ACG's credit card and people sometimes assume they're just for doing course labs, but, like,…
It isn't a perfect platform but the breadth and centralization has been great and the communication following the acquisition has been good. It is well worth the cost of entry.
The demos are valuable as well since they start you with certain infrastructure and you can focus on the drill/demo.
I would love to see some of the Terraform/Cloudformation templates that go into these products...
I wonder if Amazon’s theory here is that by offering multi-cloud support they can put decision makers at ease when choosing cloud vendors by making them feel like they’re not getting locked into AWS - but Amazon also expects most customers to mostly only use AWS out of convenience Disclaimer - I used to work for AWS
I've worked as a consultant in this area for years with large F500 companies and not once have I heard anyone actually be concerned with the "lock in" boogeyman. There used to be a lot of concern around general trust of the cloud, which drove people to stick to on-prem servers. But "lock in", IME, is only something people fret about on HN. What I think is happening is that companies are starting to gain more experien…