>by not going to the cloud
...in the worst way imaginable
Doing a direct lift and shift with 1:1 replacement of instances is, intentionally, prohibitibely expensive, so you stop and think.
...in the worst way imaginable
Doing a direct lift and shift with 1:1 replacement of instances is, intentionally, prohibitibely expensive, so you stop and think.
This post is basically "see how bad a knife is for unscrewing screws". They're showing off how unfamiliar they are with AWS offering. And that's unrelated to which solution wins for this scenario.
At the scale discussed here, there are no free lunches.
Managing VMs with dedicated resources directly means you have to distribute the load manually, leading to unused and wasted resources.
While I don’t personally have experience with more enterprise-y solutions like VMWare, I have to imagine they have more complete solutions already baked-in.