[Daishiman]

Things AWS solves for me that I've always wanted to have solved:

* Database administration

* Security best practices by default

* Updated infrastructure

* Automatic load balancing

* Trivial credentials management

* 2FA for all infra administration

* Container image repositories

* Distributed file systems

I was and old-school bare-metal UNIX systems admin 15 years ago. Each of those things, in medium to large companies, would take a full-time sysadmin to keep it all up to date.

[alfiedotwtf]

Same. I used to really hate "cloud" given I was old-school devops and could do all of these things listed above with self-written management tools and a sprinkling of Ansible. However, I think in the past year, I've seen the light, shaved off my neckbeard, and have really enjoyed the lightening of shoulders of not having to think about things problems that no longer exist.