Yeah, my entire project lives on AWS. Fortunately, it’s not my problem to keep things going, so I guess we’ll just roll with whatever punches come.
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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoI have a feeling the big impact is going to be in other services, namely AWS. Makes me wonder if some new global outages are coming, which are always fun to deal with.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
jonne@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Yeah, there’s going to be hilariously bad outages at AWS within like a year.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah… I didn’t choose it, but some of the services from my employer run there. May be a good time to make some moves, we’ll see.
Not really going to be an issue I can fix obviously, but I’ll be making even more backups than normal…
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
To where? Google? Azure? There’s a reason we call them Frugal and Unsure at my side job. If AWS sucks in the next year, that’ll barely bring it down to their level. Hell, if AWS sucks ALL NEXT YEAR with a clown-car style outage every week, then maybe.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Considering our use is not to the general public, we’d be better off with an entirely different strategy.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Why? Amazon seems to have built an amazing system with AWS, but does it need the same amount of staff time to maintain it that it needed to develop it?
If Amazon acknowledges that it isn’t going to be developing new products to the scale it did for the past decade, it probably doesn’t need the headcount it had before.
AliasVortex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Enh, the tech space is very much innovate or die. So yeah, they could probably throw everything in maintenance mode and make a reduced headcount work, but if AWS goes stagnant it’s entirely likely that Amazon goes the way of IBM and Motorol. Especially when someone (likely, Microsoft or Google) comes to take a slice of the AWS market share.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Is it still? The VC funding has started drying up and every tech company has started worrying about profitability now. I think the old innovate or die mantra has played itself out.
And IBM & Motorola diminished in part because they stuck to older industries where cost became as important as innovation and didn’t lower their cost.