[zerg2k]

I have strong evidence of the opposite. I worked in a hedge fund (unnamed for privacy) they paid top $ for IT admins, which by the way were very capable. An incursion into AWS taught them a hard lesson - the were nearly 4-5 more efficient than AWS at similar hosting capacity. Moving to GPC was their only option to maintain elasticity at relatively “acceptable” prices.

[oblio]

My "anecdata" is stronger than your "anecdata", I'd say.

> they paid top $ for IT admins, which by the way were very capable.

Most companies don't pay top dollar and as a result they have to scrape by with the leftovers. As a result Amazon for sure beats them in sysadmining efficiency.