I think you're looking at the problem with some incorrect assumptions. First, Amazon wants us to believe that people who can run things in AWS are just too dumb to be admins. I think they want this to be the case. After all, programmers who know nothing about the underlying systems their software runs on are the kind who'll turn up services and leave them on. They'll build something that has the kind of fragility that makes others afraid to turn things off to save money. Each new thing will add more and more to the monthly bill.
A good systems administrator works to regulate this tendency. She/he asks what these processes are, whether all this used storage will be needed indefinitely, what the dependencies are between different services. A good sysadmin balances the laziness of programmers who don't want to think about or care about systems long term.
Marketing for moving everything to the cloud also has tons of kickbacks that encourage decisionmakers to want to fire sysadmins and pay Amazon so they can get free stuff. Is it completely nuts that someone will have their company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to Amazon because they get a few thousand dollars worth of perks? Sure, it's nuts, but people are greedy and selfish, so this happens all the time.
The point is that from a purely technical and mathematical point of view, cloud loses every time except perhaps for the most ephemeral of uses.
I think you're looking at the problem with some incorrect assumptions. First, Amazon wants us to believe that people who can run things in AWS are just too dumb to be admins.
On the other hand, most people I meet at work are too dumb to be admins. Sad, but true :/
A good systems administrator works to regulate this tendency. She/he asks what these processes are, whether all this used storage will be needed indefinitely, what the dependencies are between different services. A good sysadmin balances the laziness of programmers who don't want to think about or care about systems long term.
Marketing for moving everything to the cloud also has tons of kickbacks that encourage decisionmakers to want to fire sysadmins and pay Amazon so they can get free stuff. Is it completely nuts that someone will have their company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to Amazon because they get a few thousand dollars worth of perks? Sure, it's nuts, but people are greedy and selfish, so this happens all the time.
The point is that from a purely technical and mathematical point of view, cloud loses every time except perhaps for the most ephemeral of uses.