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On the eve of Kubecon I think it's time we acknowledge the cloud hasn't lived up to the hype It is an amazing tool that provides a ton of convenience, but long term the promises turn out to just be marketing hype

I'm not only talking about the cost of the cloud. Although, that turns out to be a big broken promise If you're renting compute from a major cloud provider, your spending significantly more than you may need More details here thenewstack.io/cloud-vs-on-...

Your first level, 600k year on cloud, and you have “teams” doing cost opt. Hint: that would be silly.

Isn’t that what this says?

“You may also have teams dedicated to performance engineering” isn’t the same as “you have cost optimization teams” From what I’ve seen performance “teams” (1-2 ppl) do autoscaling and utilization. Cost optimization teams look at baseline reserved instance spend and deleting unused logs

Team: more than one person. Plural: also more than one. Dedicated: only this all year. 4 FTE, or did you mean to write something different? If you meant “some of your folks may like monthly glance at the billing console and yell at Ed to turn his dumb m2.4xl off” say that?