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by snom380 1636 days ago
This comes off as a bit of a FUD piece to sell the idea of serverless, like what Microsoft did with their Linux TCO play in the 2000s.

When Google was just Larry and Sergey, they didn't need an additional SRE person to help them set up and maintain their linux servers - they had enough competence to do so themselves. For someone else, renting a managed Windows server with a support agreement would be exactly the right choice.

Likewise, the 1xSRE for managed and 4xSRE for unmanaged K8s isn't substantiated. In my experience, that can be anything from 0 dedicated people and up depending on needs and circumstances. I imagine things like GKE Autopilot (auto-updates) and Fargate for EKS (serverless K8s pods) make it even easier.

It would be more interesting to me to see how their offering compares to other serverless vendors in price and features.