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I find at AWS I am always wasting engineer time optimizing dumb things. Do you know how much a TB of ram costs? Or 10TB of blazing fast NVME costs? Less than $5K. How much does that cost at AWS?! This is not even considering bandwidth which AWS overcharges soo much. Yet I waste time.

Also, maintaining servers is not hard at a proper data center. It is often more hands off than the migrations cloud providers force on their customers.

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Yeah. Also, to be honest, we still have process and approvals to get through to spin up AWS stuff.

It’s not like process disappears just cause you’re not on your own hardware. Infra is still its own team with its own budgets poking and prodding at every damn turn for every little thing till rejecting your requests, you escalate and then have a 4 week battle over needing the space.

Really? At my old company each division had its own budget and account and then you’d be an iam member of an account and spin up services under that account, but there’s no central authority to send a request to. There were tools to analyze underused services across all accounts (like EC2 instances constantly under 2% cpu load meaning they were flagged for downsizing if possible).

Then your company should have stayed on prem.

If you are paying the price of being on prem, which is really lack of ability to provision and de-provision infra quickly. There's little point to the cloud, unless you just have no infra to begin with (small companies).

I'm in a small firm now. I can't imagine having an approval process to spin up a few instances to run my tests and spin them down after. That'd be silly.

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