Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.

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    18 months ago

    The great promise of the cloud was to outsource sysadmins to be Microsoft and Amazon’s problem.

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      8 months ago

      They said that about computers going to make books disappear forty years ago… They never printed so many books that attempted to explain how those damn computers worked!

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      18 months ago

      That absolutely was a huge part of the marketing pitch, but as one who supports his company’s cloud infrastructure…

      Lol. Rofl. Lmao even.

      Maybe that works for places that don’t have heavy tech needs. Maybe.

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      18 months ago

      At the cost of getting new sysadmins who are less numerous, but ask for more money, and best of all, you get to pay Microsoft and Amazon to train them!

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        18 months ago

        Not only that, but it’s no longer your problem when its in the cloud. You can blame the cloud for everything!

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          8 months ago

          “Yeah we’re familiar with this issue design, and have opened 17 support requests and upvoted 5 user voice posts to Microsoft about it. But hey we have this workaround that is not maintainable that you can use meanwhile”