They had all their eggs in one basket (the AWS basket).
So no - you cannot just put your head into the sand and totally rely on AWS (or other cloud provider) to "take care of everything for you". Not if you want your business to survive .
You still need someone with some kind of Operations mindset. Call them a Sysadmin, DevOps, or Engineer, or Developer. You still need that focus.
Also - this idea that you can just add "apt-get update" to your startup script and be good to go is quite naive. I have more than once been bitten by O/S updates that caused our apps to not work the same anymore. You need to test this stuff in a dev/QA environment first. It's also crazy to run different versions of stuff on your production cluster. That can cause debugging headaches.
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I sure hope that you have offsite and offline backups. Just because AWS (or whoever) does some backups for you, does not protect you from everything.
This company went out of business when their AWS console login got hacked, and someone deleted all their backups:
arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/a...
They had all their eggs in one basket (the AWS basket).
So no - you cannot just put your head into the sand and totally rely on AWS (or other cloud provider) to "take care of everything for you". Not if you want your business to survive .
You still need someone with some kind of Operations mindset. Call them a Sysadmin, DevOps, or Engineer, or Developer. You still need that focus.
Also - this idea that you can just add "apt-get update" to your startup script and be good to go is quite naive. I have more than once been bitten by O/S updates that caused our apps to not work the same anymore. You need to test this stuff in a dev/QA environment first. It's also crazy to run different versions of stuff on your production cluster. That can cause debugging headaches.