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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by bilekas on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:57AM (#45745632)
> Forget? You have to hire people for that. We are a software organization. We build software.

You don't need to hire dedicated people full time. It could even be outsourced and then a small contract for maintenance.

It's the same argument you could say for "accounting persons", or "HR persons" - "We are a software organisation!" - Personally I don't buy the argument.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by Foobar8568 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:59AM (#45745656)
Outsourcing and cloud cost are always underestimated.
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by theta_d on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:22AM (#45745880)
> It could even be outsourced and then a small contract for maintenance.

Yeah, those people we outsourced to happen to work at AWS.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by vidarh on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:59AM (#45746269)
They don't though. You still need devops when you use AWS, and most organisations end up needing more time spent on devops when they use AWS.
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