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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:13AM (#24432010)
Eh. I don't get it. There have been so many postings and comments here on HN and elsewhere about how the cloud is NOT cheap, how they saw they burnt money there, and saved large amounts by doing it for themselves. Not to mention vendor lock in.
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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by koheripbal on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:54AM (#24432370)
A lot of folks mis-configure / mis-manage their instances so as to use way more resources than they really need.
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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:25AM (#24432642)
Yah. But that wasn't the case in the cases I remember. They were sometimes very detailed.
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