> A few minutes per month is the most devops any startup would need to do in reality running their own VMs or servers, after an hour or two of setup.
Right up until something crashes or some hardware fails.
Right up until something crashes or some hardware fails.
Unlike the public cloud where Nothing Ever Goes Wrong (tm).
There are never brownouts.
There are never latency spikes.
No undocumented quota limits.
Documented but confusing quota limits.
Unexpected performance issues caused by other customers.
Forced upgrades.
Forced patching.
Shock bills.
No siree Bob, that kind of thing just doesn't go on in the public cloud! It's all rainbows and unicorns....
Your original claim is quite unrealistic and you'd do well to retract it. It's bad advice both for public cloud and for self-managed efforts alike.
We supported disaster recovery and high availability deployments.
Any failed component, Dell would send us a replacement in less than 24 hours.
Try calling Amazon and getting that kind of response for your problems.
But, yeah, that is worse-case scenario.
Sure serverless etc has it's upsides and in that case I do use it, I just encounter close to 0 companies per year that need it or benefit from it. Aws ways benefits.
The original claim is not at all unrealistic, I’ve been running a small shop with about 20 VMs without issues for years, uptime seems to me about comparable with serverless or hosted services from big players who regularly have small outages and there really is very little work involved.