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by no_wizard 883 days ago
In many organizations the biggest appeal of services like AWS or GCP isn’t simply cost, it’s that the service is approved and therefore all the services of that service are approved and I no longer have to justify spinning up more compute or leveraging one of their more bespoke services like SQS (or wherever equivalent). It’s all just there, ready to be used.

It may not be true for you and where you work but this is a very real thing in a lot of organizations, where development teams want a quicker turn around on booting up services they need as the product evolves and having some control over how they act with each other. It (sometimes to negative results) opens up more architectural possibilities to solve problems

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I'm not saying using AWS is universality bad. Depends on your needs.

What I'm saying is some people are trying to portrait rolling your own k8s or on-prem as equivalent to rolling your own crypto - better left to the chosen ones with years of training in secret monastery. This is BS :-)