Speaking of which. My last job I was the dev lead and we were doing everything on prem. Then we hired “consultants” to help us “move to the cloud”. I didn’t know the first thing about AWS when the migration started.
I didn’t know at the time that the consultants were a bunch of old school netops folks who took one AWS exam and all they knew was how to duplicate an on prem infrastructure in AWS.
Of course as always, if you take your on prem thinking and processes to the cloud, you now have the worse of both worlds. All of the process and people overhead of being on prem and you’re spending more for the privilege.
I started studying for the AWS architect associate exam just so I could talk the talk and I realized how much unnecessary work we were doing instead of using managed services. I presented my entire plan to the consultants and they didn’t tell me once that there was a better way.
For phase 2, I wanted to be more “cloud native” there was so much push back from the netops people who could tell they were losing their grip.
Not long after, I changed companies to work for a company where the new CTO - a smart guy who is definitely not young - always prefers managed services.
I’ve worked for small companies and everything I do in AWS, I’ve had to do on prem in the last 20 years. Never again.
ha! you are exactly right. so many gatekeepers in our shops infrastructure teams. a bunch of total clowns who can stall your project for years. all the cloud-haters don't understand why people want the cloud. it is to get rid of them.
Wouldn't the solution for that be to become an infra expert yourself? If you're only buying infra from the cloud aren't you still being gatekept, just in a nicer way?
