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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by SpaceMartini on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:55AM (#31001987)
As an addendum to this: if you absolutely must use cloud, stick with AWS. Using Azure is (IMO) a fucking miserable experience and their only advantage (InfiniBand) is better served by buying your own hardware. GCP and OCI might be fine if you are getting a lot of credits, but the skills will not be useful down the line - while AWS is expensive, you will at least learn a bunch of in-demand operational skills.
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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by smartbit on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:24PM (#31005655)
> you will at least learn a bunch of in-demand operational skills.

Are you saying we should stick with AWS because most stick with AWS?

My personal experience with GKE/GCP was quite good, except as expected for their support.

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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by SpaceMartini on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:15PM (#31006385)
> Are you saying we should stick with AWS because most stick with AWS?

Broadly speaking yes - there is a lot of value in having a deeper pool of skilled people to hire from, and there are enough differences between cloud offerings to knock at least a couple of "effective years" of experience off someone who changes provider.

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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by briffle on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:51AM (#31002739)
So nobody got fired for buying IBM?
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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by smm11 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:47AM (#31004249)
I can hang 32 terminals off just one PC. You're still blowing your budget on standalones.
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Re:We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to ... by earleybird on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:40PM (#31008554)
Dang it all, we had 20+ teletypes hanging off a 32Kb PDP-8 (with DECTape for random access storage), "and we liked it!" :-)
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