> This magical free time never appears, particularly when your business is suddenly return focused after your capital comes in. The low capital cost of the services your are integrating typically is used as a justification to utilise them more.
Never talked about magical free time, I'm talking of not having to dedicate an ops team to maintain your bare metal infrastructure.
> Then a client comes along dangling a few million quid/dollars etc who wants it somewhere else for regulatory compliance or wants to self host it and you have to turn them away.
How do you imaging this being easier with a bare metal infrastructure than one on AWS?
It really depends on the specifics: If you're using managed services and the customer wants a on-site solution, you need to find replacement for those. If your customer needs something geographically close, deploying to another region is trivial compared to building our a DC suite.
> It's not about making your life easier in the short term, it's about building a solid business foundation and continuation plan and a good DR strategy. A lot of people don't consider this and crash and burn and it's not pretty.
Indeed, and depending on the specifics it might be much more reasonable to run in the cloud.
Never talked about magical free time, I'm talking of not having to dedicate an ops team to maintain your bare metal infrastructure.
> Then a client comes along dangling a few million quid/dollars etc who wants it somewhere else for regulatory compliance or wants to self host it and you have to turn them away.
How do you imaging this being easier with a bare metal infrastructure than one on AWS? It really depends on the specifics: If you're using managed services and the customer wants a on-site solution, you need to find replacement for those. If your customer needs something geographically close, deploying to another region is trivial compared to building our a DC suite.
> It's not about making your life easier in the short term, it's about building a solid business foundation and continuation plan and a good DR strategy. A lot of people don't consider this and crash and burn and it's not pretty.
Indeed, and depending on the specifics it might be much more reasonable to run in the cloud.