Originally Posted by McG
I don’t work for AWS or Microsoft but I know a tiny bit about this and cloud in general.
At the most basic cloud, you are doing whatever you would do on premise in your own raised floor on someone else’s raised floor and hardware. With the right preparation, you can move your VMs up and down to the cloud as an extension of on premise to create a hybrid cloud.
At the most extreme, some of the things that you can do start to look like magic. Infrastructure as code, auto scaling, auto patching, lambdas that detect code changes and auto replicate, massive computational power, and many, many little tricks to optimize environments. Infinitely scalable up and down too.
On jobs, there are thousands of vacancies and between cloud architects and cloud security, these jobs are highly in demand and will only increase in demand.
Financially, cloud can eliminate capital costs and replace them with operating costs which is usually beneficial to accountants. Imagine never buying hardware again and only paying for what you use instead of trying to guess your environment.
The thing that blew me away was setting up an environment; dmz, app, operating system, database, size and configuration of the environment. A few mouse clicks and there it was, “recommended configuration A”. Wrong one? Delete the environment, choose “recommended configuration b”, and away you go. Minutes of work. This would literally take months to RFP, design, implement, and then find out it was wrong? Return hardware, redo everything…. It’s hard to imagine.
True cloud computing is well beyond using someone else’s hardware though, and yet for many, that’s all they need.
I’ve definitely drank the koolaid on cloud.
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