Comment by johnnyanmac
5 hours ago
If it only took 18 months for all that, I'd be very impressed. I was thinking at least a year of inevitable meetings and plannings and maybe 3 years of slow execution. And I still might be optimistic there.
>And what business value does this theoretical “cloud agnosticism” bring - that never is once you get to scale.
The "business value" here is not being beholden to an increasingly hostile "ally" who owns the land these servers operate on. If you aren't worried about that, then there is no point in doing any of this.
But if things do escalate to war, there's a very obvious attack vector to cripple your company with. Even if you're only 20% into the migration, that's better than 0%.
I don’t know how long it took before they brought AWS in and they decided to do something or if they failed beforehand and I don’t know how long it was before they brought me in.
Oh, sorry. I wasn't trying to speak on your experiences specifically. It more about general talks on the scenario of "America is compromised, we need to decouple starting now".
I of course don't know the scale of your company and how much they even wanted to migrate. Those are all variable in this.
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