[SpaceMartini]

As an addendum to this: if you absolutely must use cloud, stick with AWS. Using Azure is (IMO) a fucking miserable experience and their only advantage (InfiniBand) is better served by buying your own hardware. GCP and OCI might be fine if you are getting a lot of credits, but the skills will not be useful down the line - while AWS is expensive, you will at least learn a bunch of in-demand operational skills.

[smartbit]

> you will at least learn a bunch of in-demand operational skills.

Are you saying we should stick with AWS because most stick with AWS?

My personal experience with GKE/GCP was quite good, except as expected for their support.

[SpaceMartini]

> Are you saying we should stick with AWS because most stick with AWS?

Broadly speaking yes - there is a lot of value in having a deeper pool of skilled people to hire from, and there are enough differences between cloud offerings to knock at least a couple of "effective years" of experience off someone who changes provider.

[briffle]

So nobody got fired for buying IBM?

[smm11]

I can hang 32 terminals off just one PC. You're still blowing your budget on standalones.

[earleybird]

Dang it all, we had 20+ teletypes hanging off a 32Kb PDP-8 (with DECTape for random access storage), "and we liked it!" :-)