alt Hacker NewsThey've gone the route of multiple AWS accounts in my company to avoid the issue they introduced with horrible planning.
First they wanted us out of on-premise, and told us costs wouldn't matter.
Then they wanted us to be 'cloud agnostic', but when given deadlines changed to 'get it working in AWS ASAP, doesn't matter the tech debt'
Now they're freaking out about AWS costs, and we're back to juggling 'cloud agnostic' and 'reduce cost to serve in all clouds' priorities on top of features and maintenance, both of which are 10x slower due to tech debt and the plethora of bugs.
I really need to find a new job soon. Its insane how badly the execs and upper management are running this company. Every day is a knee jerk reaction from someone so detached from the reality of things or with so little understanding how it works, they do nothing but add process problems that barely address the issues they think they're solving.
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I’d ask, “have we worked together?” since this is a spot on description of my former employer, except it’s probably a spot on description of thousands of mid sized companies.
I would wager it’s not uncommon.
But also, the execs are the ones making the business risk decisions. Just make sure they have the correct info to make those decisions, the. Your responsibility is done.
The biggest issue I see here is the misguided assumption that Cloud is just automatically and unilaterally better than on-premise or professionally managed, hosted hardware. This isn't true in most cases.
There are so many providers, and therefore examples, of physical tin being accessible in under a minute with cost:hardware ratios that blow Cloud out if the sky (pun! ha!) OVH have a server for USD $95/month (with no commitments) that can be brought up and made available 120 _seconds_ that has six 3.8GHz cores, 32GB of RAM, 2x960GB NVMe SSDs, and 1Gbit/s of UNMETERED, guaranteed bandwidth... that's absolutely insane, and that's fully managed from the hardware down, so arguments like, "bUT yoU haVe to MAintAin hardWARE!" are just not true _at all_.