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by tuna-piano 3326 days ago
Exactly this. Companies are still running on-prem software from decades ago, because it's not economical to migrate. Why should the cloud be different?

It's very scary to a purchasing manager at a company to know that when they invest $100k+ in developer/consultant time implementing a solution, that every 3-5 years they will need to spend an additional $xk to simply keep the solution alive!

AWS is doing this right. I can't imagine recommending Google for many cloud use cases, given their propensity to decommission software that companies use!
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reilly3000 3326 days ago
Salesforce gets this right too. All of their APIs get built with the intention of supporting them for 20+ years. Companies can't build on quicksand.
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rubber_duck 3326 days ago
>Why should the cloud be different?

Because you're not running the stack. Relying on any PASS that you can't lock down to a version and deploy on commodity infrastructure means you've accepted the reality of being vulnerable to platform changes - and in a lot of cases this makes sense because the benefits outweigh the cost of staying up to date - but scenarios you describe are not one of them.

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