> I'm so surprised there is so much pushback against this..
Same, this trend towards "AWS all the things" has really amazed me.
We've all mocked small companies copying big companies by trying to make their app super-duper scalable from the very start. After all, everyone things they are the next google, despite their 5 total users right now.
But this is really the opposite. AWS is phenomenal for the startup that would readily trade high opex for lower capex. Servers aren't the cheapest things in the world to buy and they depreciate. It makes total sense for startups to start this way.
But why are big companies, with an actual budget for staff, copying the behavior of their favorite startups?
Opex looks nicer on the sheets than capex for large deployments. Incredible high investment from AWS on luring in C level with "white-papers" and promises of cost and governance magical revolutions. I've heard the promise of cheaper, faster where you can focus on "innovation". I am yet to see any of it become a reality.