I recently heard from a senior IT person that the company for which he works could save many millions by moving a certain application from a hairball of micro-services at AWS to a much simpler architecture on colocated servers... but the company's management doesn't want to hear any of it. In fact, management wants IT to move every legacy application that's not yet on the cloud to the cloud, specifically to AWS, because it's considered "more flexible" and perceived as "the future."
He's taken to calling AWS the "lifetime employment program for enterprise software developers."
He's taken to calling AWS the "lifetime employment program for enterprise software developers."