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Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by shadowtree on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:58PM (#36393439)
Work for a 30bn market cap company, all our stuff is built on AWS. Offices all around the globe. Not a single electrician on payroll.

YMMV.

Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by betaby on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:32PM (#36393989)
You may call your company arrangement `electricityless` even! Like `serverless` - we don't use servers.
Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by mschuster91 on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:23PM (#36394738)
> Not a single electrician on payroll.

Directly, yes maybe. Many companies don't have in-house experts (and get shafted by vendors as a result, as they're lacking the competence required to assess the quality of work).

But indirectly, they all have. In Germany, at least, you're required to have electrical appliances inspected by a licensed professional (an electrician or otherwise qualified person) at least every two years - most companies opt for using dedicated external companies, but you can also train someone for that task. On top of that come all the electricians hired by the landlords - the ones dealing with complaints and remodels, or servicing lifts, escalators, HVAC, datacenters, ...

Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs by shadowtree on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:36PM (#36397804)
Utility is just an old term for "as a service".

Electricity as a Service, which includes payments for expert maintenance.

Thread is about AWS and merits of in-sourcing, which is not how the world operates.

Anyways.