"The result was a system composed of many wavefronts of change: some systems were automated with Puppet, some with Terraform, some used ECS and others used straight EC2.

In 2012 we were proud to have an architecture that could evolve so frequently, letting us experiment continually, discovering what worked and doing more of it.

In 2017, however, we finally recognised that things had changed.

AWS is significantly more complex today than when we started using it. It provides an incredible amount of choice and power but not without cost. Any team that interacts with EC2 today must now navigate decisions on VPCs , networking and many, many more."

Of course, this time, it is different.