alt Hacker News> Cloud challenges can be as or more complex than bare metal ones.
Big +1 to this. For what I thought was a modest sized project it feels like an np-hard problem coordinating with gcloud account reps to figure out what regions have both enough hyperdisk capacity and compute capacity. A far cry from being able to just "download more ram" with ease.
The cloud ain't magic folks, it's just someone else's servers.
(All that said... still way easier than if I needed to procure our own hardware and colocate it. The project is complete. Just delayed more than I expected.)
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> The cloud ain't magic folks, it's just someone else's servers.
The cloud is where the entire responsibility for those servers lives elsewhere.
If you're going to run a VM, sure. But when you're running a managed db with some managed compute, the cost for that might be high in comparison. But you just offloaded the whole infra management responsibility. That's their value add
The cloud is magic. If it is down nobody is in trouble. You just throw your hands in the air and say oh azure / aws / gcloud is down.
But if you are the admin of a physical machine you are in deep trouble.