Re:Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acq...
by alephnerd on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:36PM
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> the cost / benefit tradeoffs often seem pretty good for AWS
If it's greenfield I'd agree. There's a reason why most companies founded after 2008 have a heavy public cloud presence.
The issue is if you are a large brownfield deployment (like most F1000s), a "Cloud Transformation" takes forever and is costly.
It can be done - for example Capital One and Broadcom - but it requires executive buy-in to respect engineering leadership and build a solid DevOps/Platform team.
I know if I was to found my own company tomorrow, I'd be entire cloud first because of velocity and ease of scalability, but you can't expect a company like UnitedHealth Group to transition to an entirely cloud first environment within a 2-3 year timeframe as even a minor outage represents millions of dollars lost a minute and litigation.
Over the next 10-15 years we'll see a large number of non-tech first companies becoming multi-cloud, but in 2023, it's still work in progress.
If it's greenfield I'd agree. There's a reason why most companies founded after 2008 have a heavy public cloud presence.
The issue is if you are a large brownfield deployment (like most F1000s), a "Cloud Transformation" takes forever and is costly.
It can be done - for example Capital One and Broadcom - but it requires executive buy-in to respect engineering leadership and build a solid DevOps/Platform team.
I know if I was to found my own company tomorrow, I'd be entire cloud first because of velocity and ease of scalability, but you can't expect a company like UnitedHealth Group to transition to an entirely cloud first environment within a 2-3 year timeframe as even a minor outage represents millions of dollars lost a minute and litigation.
Over the next 10-15 years we'll see a large number of non-tech first companies becoming multi-cloud, but in 2023, it's still work in progress.