Comment by theamk
1 day ago
> performance regressions, heat maps, kernel issues etc.
> AWS takes that away and makes you focus on the product.
ha ha ha no. Have been dealing with kernel issues on my AWS machines for a long time. They lock up under certain kinds of high load. AWS support is useless. Experimenting with kernel version leads to performance regressions.
AWS is great if your IT/purchasing department is inefficient. Getting a new AWS machine is instant, compared to getting purchasing to approve new machine and IT allocating it to you. But all the low-level stuff is still there.
>AWS is great if your IT/purchasing department is inefficient
Fwiw, I think a lot of companies have this problem.
My wife is literally consulting for a big bank where it takes them 6+ months to get an on-premise VM setup and configured.
I think the conversation has turned from "Can we spend more?" to "Can you please try and spend less?"