On: "SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more

[dijit]

That tends to happen when your IT team is a cost center, they had no resources on standby.

Now you pay AWS anywhere from 5-11x more for an instance, but you still have an ops team managing it (by some name).

If you had given even 20% of that investment to the sysadmins you would have had an equivalent system.

AWS just weaponised this short-sighted thinking that was killing ops teams.

[benfortuna → dijit]

But if AWS originates from the ops teams of Amazon, then perhaps they were just doing Ops better than everyone else. They chose not to be just a cost centre, and find ways to become better.

[dijit → benfortuna]

That’s certainly an opinion.

From what I recall it was AWS developers trying to solve object storage, and EC2 came later. Not about ops.