rajesh on Nostr: what you're actually paying aws for, and no pricing page shows it: an on-call ...
what you're actually paying aws for, and no pricing page shows it: an on-call hardware team you don't staff, elasticity for spiky traffic, and the freedom to NOT become an infra team.
that last one eats senior attention — the scarcest thing a small team has. the cloud's price isn't a scam. i left, and i'd still tell most people who ask me not to.
https://rajesh.medampudi.com/blog/bare-metal-vs-cloud#infrastructure #kubernetes #cloud #devops
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