[overstay8930]

"this is what we're paid for" Nope, it's what YOU'RE paid for.

I am paid to relax on my holidays because I know my team and I don't have to drive to a colo to swap out a failing line card since I realized time is worth money and people quit jobs that take up too much of their time. I can A/B test (something on-prem guys NEVER get the luxury to do) so outages just don't happen at all (fingers crossed).

I have rarely met someone happy with their on-prem DC deployments, but after I moved to the AWS world it's just crazy how backwards it is to be anywhere but the cloud.

[icehawk]

Anyone serious wouldn't "drive to the colo to swap out a failing line card" they keep have excess capacity and spares in the colo, and have the on-site personnel from the facility replace it.

Honestly just sounds like the environment you describe has greater organizational issues not related to on prem vs cloud.

[jjav]

> backwards it is to be anywhere but the cloud

It's almost as if you feel the cloud is something magically different, it's actually just servers on racks owned by someone else.

You can own the same thing if you want and do everything exactly the same.

(See e.g. Oxide)

[echelon]

That feels really grumpy.

Compare something like rocketry or chemical engineering with running an on-prem DC. I don't see what the complaining is about. It's still a luxury compared to what other professions have to deal with.

[123pie123]

there's so much to unpack here!!