Who will make sure your provisioned configurations have proper redundancy?
Who will move your domain when an availability zone has an outage?
Who will work with upstream networks when you're getting DDoS'd?
Who will wake up in the middle of the night when a service you're integrating with is not working?
Maybe you've never run a large system at scale, or maybe ou just had bad experiences with "SysAdmins" that didn't, but the role of hand-holding a complex, integrated service is not going away. The fact that you may not need screwdrivers for certain systems is almost beside the point.
Nevermind that, when you're at sufficient scale, you can run your own data centers cheaper than Amazon. Break-even happens well before a thousand nodes.
(I'm not a sysadmin; i'm an engineer who is very glad we have good sysadmins around :-)
Who will make sure your provisioned configurations have proper redundancy?
Who will move your domain when an availability zone has an outage?
Who will work with upstream networks when you're getting DDoS'd?
Who will wake up in the middle of the night when a service you're integrating with is not working?
Maybe you've never run a large system at scale, or maybe ou just had bad experiences with "SysAdmins" that didn't, but the role of hand-holding a complex, integrated service is not going away. The fact that you may not need screwdrivers for certain systems is almost beside the point.
Nevermind that, when you're at sufficient scale, you can run your own data centers cheaper than Amazon. Break-even happens well before a thousand nodes.
(I'm not a sysadmin; i'm an engineer who is very glad we have good sysadmins around :-)