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by zerotolerance
409 days ago
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Much of the work "security, keeping things up and running" that AWS does behinds the scenes is bolstered due to the nature of running a massively complicated multi-tenant cloud. Doing exactly what you need in-house is orders of magnitude simpler, but has a deeper knowledge requirement. The cloud is a powerful way for companies to commoditize skill. |
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Cloud engineers are extremely highly paid because they need to be extremely skilled.
No one running stuff on prem is compiling Linux from the kernel and then building a few packages onto the hardware they built manually after designing a networking infrastructure in their office building’s basement.
You’re paying for enterprise software with support and best practices and sensible defaults provided to you, running on enterprise level hardware with support, best practices, sensible defaults configured, running in professional data centers where the data center firms manage maintenance, repair, etc while also managing physical security and other risks.
If anything, the support you can get from all the on prem providers is far superior to what the cloud providers are giving you.