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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by BirAdam on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @09:24AM (#45746529)
I'm not either. I used to do fully managed hosting solutions at a datacenter. I had to do everything from hardware through debugging customer applications. Now, people pay me to do the same but on cloud platforms and the occasional on-prem stuff. In general, the younger people I've come across have no idea how to set anything up. They've always just used awscli, the AWS Console, or terraform. I've even been ridiculed for suggesting people not use AWS. Thing is, public cloud really killed my passion for the industry in general.

Beyond public cloud being bad for the planet, I also hate that it drains companies of money, centralizes everyone's risk, and helps to entrench Amazon as yet another tech oligarchic fiefdom. For most people, these things just don't matter apparently.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by palata on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:06AM (#45747020)
> Thing is, public cloud really killed my passion for the industry in general.

Similar here, I think. I got into Computer Science because I liked software... the way it was. Now I truly think that most software completely sucks.

The thing is that it has grown so much since then, that most developers come from a different angle.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by ecshafer on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:54AM (#45747637)
I think in 5-10 years there is going to be very profitable consulting on setting up data center infrastructure, and de-clouding for companies.
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by alphager on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:32AM (#45748187)
Why do you think public cloud is worse for the environment than a private dc? I'd expect the larger dcs to be more energy efficient.
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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by BirAdam on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:37PM (#45767449)
To offer immediate turn around, a cloud vendor has to over buy and have more machines in the rack than are necessary. Often, those machines have to be powered on, and they have to be rather powerful machines. Just think of S3 and think how many machines must be available and how many HDDs/SSDs have to be installed in every machine. This is an insane amount of power and material.
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