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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:23:36 -0400
From:      Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [OT] two birds with one stone :)
Message-ID:  <CAHieY7Sh=NxUpjdpdFOsnOs9C3kdCdsWZydiEQrXqLQcdWq7mg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 689, Issue 2
>
>  > Message: 1
>  > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:22:52 -0300
>  > From: SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 <soulofroot55@gmail.com>
>  > Subject: The history show that Theo de Raadt was right about
>  >      virtualization?
>
>  > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
> [..]
>  > The history show that Theo de Raadt was right about virtualization?
>
> What do you reckon, ten years less two months later?
>
>  > Message: 8
>  > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:50:41 -0400 (EDT)
>  > From: "Sedo :: Customer Support"     <contact@sedo.com>
>  > Subject: Re: 111
>
>  > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>  > No Value
>  > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Sure got that right ..
>
> [Sorry folks, couldn't resist ..]
>

I am amazed at how large companies have blindly bought into Amazon AWS
and don't even realize how outrageously expensive it becomes when you
actually do scale. Orders of magnitude higher than the cost and risk
of real sysadmins and real hardware. Most applications are being
developed around RDS, SQS and all the other packaged services that AWS
offers, and certified AWS TechOps dudes are becoming evermore stupid
Amazon drones....  which is getting these companies in a vendor lock
situation that I hadn't seen since the 80's. It's like Microsoft all
over again but now using the very same Open Source technology that we
helped build all these years.

Not sure if AWS is even fully legal, for example is RDS technology
Open Source too even though it wraps MySQL and PostgreSQL ? Is there a
technicality they are exploiting ? What's the MQ technology around
SQS, are they releasing that ?

Scary stuff when you see how much of the Internet is on AWS....



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