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It is a colossal waste of resources, indeed.

It's also a huge waste of human effort managing the complexity introduced by the cloud provider's arbitrary bullshit.

At this point multiple generations of engineers have little understanding of underlying layers of technology, having only really learned how to use cloud services. No TCP/IP, no UNIX, just a bit of bash and a ton of AWS.

Cloud providers do hide most of the low level complexity, which could be seen as a benefit (at least that seems to be what's touted as a main benefit, along with instant scalability.) Unfortunately they replace all of that with more arbitrary complexity which is ultimately (in my opinion, at least) a much bigger burden than the fundamental complexity that is abstracted away.




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