• chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
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    1 year ago

    “yet” is the keyword there for sure. It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Even if they’re flushed with cash and grossly over provision their systems, sooner or later, a huge vulnerability will roll around and someone will need to setup / update the OS, ensuring quorum is available for their cluster, fail over traffic during update windows, etc etc etc.

    The stacks are getting so insurmountably huge, it’s not possible to just drop a new cluster at their described scale without significantly increasing the workload for an existing team.

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      1 year ago

      Yup. By moving out, they already let go of a lot of security services that came with their cloud subscription like CASB, automated patching, DB maintenance, security/network monitoring, etc. You have to replace all of that with people and on-prem tools/systems.

    • ElectricCattleman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I mean, they could hire 2-3 people and still have a significant savings over cloud, no? Or contract with a company to do it. They don’t have all that many servers, so full time may not even be needed. Cloud is great except you have zero control over pricing long term. They can raise rates or, more often, re-structure their pricing so they you end up paying more without calling it a hike.