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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by rocky1138 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:36AM (#16457501)
It's also easy to hire people who have AWS experience. It's getting harder and harder these days to find anyone who has actually seen the inside of a data centre.
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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by Bombthecat on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:54PM (#16460815)
The lock in is even worse than people think.

Now more and more companies are locked in in Amazon.

Hard to find a good old Datacenter Admin.

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Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of... by FreedomWarrior on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:32PM (#16461286)
As an "old-school" sysadmin I have the opposite view: it's difficult to find jobs that don't require AWS these days.

I know perfectly well how to provision and scale a large infrastructure and can give you 99,999% availability in any application, BGP if needed.

Yet no one is interested in that. Sure I can write Ansible scripts and Terraform policies, but it's a miniscule part of my skillset and doing it on AWS is just boring compared to building the backend that powers it.

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