Reconciling Two Views of Cloud Computing
I think it would be helpful to read “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.” The write up is an MBA team effort, and it makes what I think is an interesting point. The cloud makes sense when a company is small and doing the “go fast, break things” stuff. But as the company becomes larger, the cloud becomes expensive and slaps handcuffs on the customer. The MBAs may not agree with my précis, but it works okay for me.
Then read “Atlassian Claims It’s a Step Closer to Achieving Nirvana with Its Data.” The main point of the essay to that centralizing cloud work is better, faster, and all around more wonderful than the multi-cloud thing. I winced at the use of the word “nirvana.” Amazon AWS and nirvana don’t fit together like peanut butter and chocolate or pinga and salt. (Nirvana, I think, means according to Google’s recycling of the Oxford “languages”
transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth.
That’s AWS for sure.
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