Good luck finding a Cloud Engineer for that money to manage your cloud-based infrastructure. ;) Because it’s not going to manage itself, not if you are doing anything remotely complex. And even if you are not doing complex things, DYI is only for techies, cloud or not.
Re:The Cloud
by stickfigure on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:59PM
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That depends on your definition of 'cloud'. If your app fits into existing PaaS models (Google App Engine, Heroku, et al) then you can dispense with the ops/devops team entirely. Yeah, they're expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as hiring.
You’ll have infrastructure deployment engineers no matter what you do. But you’ll only need infra ops staff (as opposed to application ops staff) if you’re running your own infra.
There’s nobody you pay, in your own company, to sit around watching S3 or Lambda or SQS for degradation. That ops service is part of AWS’s job that you pay for through each service’s fee structure.
Except, TFA talks about renting a server rather than running your own infrastructure. ;) Sure, with AWS there is less work to do (if you have the skills to set it up in the first place, or it’s £££ time) but TFA is right in that you get much worse performance per £.
Not even really 57,600$. Over here, a person costs their company 1.5x the salary written in their contract (and nearly 2x their "take-home" salary). And most developed countries have something similar (more or less).
So the salary we're really talking about actually is less than 40k a year.
Good luck ^^'
Comparing it to a full time job is not really fair.
From my experience, doing sysadmin for a single server only takes time initially. You might spend a couple weeks full time to get everything going, but 6 months in it's probably only a couple hours a week.
Also, good luck finding a Dev Ops engineer for $57,600 a year.