Alas it was not to meet the as-yet-not-British man himself, but we did get to hang out with some #AWS groupies 17 floors up, with a great view that would surely inspire a hand to write somehat right of centre, with an overuse of puns.
First observation was that #AWS must be successful and work well, unlike the usual skinny hard-working #geekdom, here we have some exhibiting the accumulated girth of the easy life, like the pale landed gentry of old. They extolled the virtues of the burgeoning cloud platform and hoped they could style out the increasingly common move from #PowerPoint / #KeyNote / #Prezzi, to somewhat 90s looking #HTML5 #slideware, but let us not go parallel, as the content was good... While the wine was cheap and crisps did not hide the evil Cheese and Onion in their midst.
#AWS is moving and quick, in respouse to to the #dev community in part, but mostly to customers who have a good relationship with the vendor, each release seems to see the missing asks from last time around make an appearance, further simplifying the move from on-prem.
What was missing though is a dollar ticker, each Amazon slide showed more and more #Visio prettiness (no cloud version of that yet!) but along with that extravagance was no idea of value, in a #newLabour kind of credit control method, the idea was to ignore spend that multiple load balances, secondary virtual appliances and content distribution might add. They may be micro payments, but it doesn't take long for them to add up - recent analysis show in some cases #cloud costs are very close to #on-prem.
However, features are good, but so heavily biased towards infrastructure folks, not development geeks, which I see a major different to #Azure which prays to another section of the unwashed novelty T-Shirt adorned aficionados.
This is not to say features are bad, as deployment, cost, security andpacking are covered, #Docker too, but to my mind we miss the solutions invention, where #Azure comes out better. #AWS solves the issues with tin and wire really well, but less so the focus on what business really wants. Articulating the real value of #cloud to a senior exec in a way that aligns to their business is a challenge few seem to be able to meet,
Maturity is sprouting liked the first gentleman's garden though and it is the way forward, especially with #Docker, as we are less tied to the #AWS way of doing things and their #APIs, but still #Amazon rules these standards in many cases, becoming the #Apple and #Microsoft (of old) in this economy.
Positive though was our feeling, it's great to see how different mindsets see the technology addressing things and approaches taken to dispose of data centres, when perhaps not the easiest solution, are very inventive - what we are seeing isn't #DevOps, rather a new and invigorated breed of #virtualInfrastructure experts with a drive seen missing from the #BAU teams in the last decade, solving business problems using #IT as they should be, rather than trying to squeeze the square-shaped business into round #IT hole as we often see.
While there are still considerations for e,ploy inn the #cloud, the blockers are minimal for most businesses, so the tide has certainly swung - it does leave us yearning for some in-depth dark-fibre, cooling, mass-storage and other skills require for the hyper-data-centres that will replace corporate ones now - those skills will provide a heft salary or day rate for the few that need them.
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