Data centers are big and scary, no body wanted to run their own. The hypothetical cost savings of firing half the IT department was too good to pass up.
AWS even offered some credits to get started, first hit's free.
Next thing you know your AWS spend is out if control. It just keeps growing and growing and growing. Instead of writing better software, which might slow down development, just spend more money.
Ultimately in most cases it's cheaper in the short term to give AWS more money.
Apart of me wants to do a 5$ VPS challenge. How many users can you serve with 5$ per month. Maybe you actually need to understand what your server is doing ?
I'm talking non sense, I know.
But, on the AWS marketplace I can click a button, a line item is added to our bill, and infosec are happy because it’s got the AWS checkmark beside it. Doesn’t matter what it costs, as long it goes through the catalog.
That’s why big companies use AWS.
At my last job, I worked for a vc backed startup. I reached out to our fund, and they put us in touch with AWS, who gave us $100k in credits after a courtesy phone call.
That’s why startups use AWS
Except this is unironically a great value proposition.
OpenStack has been around 15 years powering this idea at scale for huge organizatons, including Wal-Mart, Verizon, Blizzard and more.
Don't forget the Java + Kafka consultants telling you to deploy your complicated "micro-service" to AWS and you ending up spending tens of millions on their "enterprise optimized compliant best practice™" solution which you end up needing to raise money every 6 months instead of saving costs as you scale up.
Instead, you spin up more VMs and pods to "solve" the scaling issue, which you lose even more money.
It is a perpetual scam.
Correction--many have years of inexperience. Plenty of people that do things like this have "7 years designing cloud-native APIs".
I lost it