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by emodendroket 3402 days ago
> The cloud isn't a money-saving tactic.

If it requires no or a smaller ops team then it seems like it might be.
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gpapilion 3402 days ago
Generally you're hitting the cheap part of your ops team. The rack and stack, and dc technicians. You start seeing the real savings when you move up to using higher services like managed databases, and analytics engines.
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rayvd 3402 days ago
I think that's right. We tend to see fragmentation w/ our hybrid approach. Teams doing DevOps type stuff with VMware/vRA on internal hardware and also on AWS/Azure. "Customers" of each environment also tend to be different so priority conflicts arise.

Could be solved by more staffing, I suppose...

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emodendroket 3402 days ago
Anecdotally, I used to be on a two-man team and switching to Azure made life insanely better.
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stephenr 3402 days ago
> If it requires no or a smaller ops team then it seems like it might be.

If you needed a team to manage it before, you still need Ops with "the cloud"

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