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Discussion on: OPSoletes: Are Sysadmins/Ops becoming things of the past?

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Olivier Bierlaire

Thanks for your comment. I focused on Amazon and I should not have. Sorry.

I forgot to mention that Amazon is just an example. You can do the same on your VPS, even on your laptop. Look at Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. you can operate your home infrastructure, your extra sensitive on-premise racks, etc. No need to go to the cloud if you don't want to.

For hoobies however, you have plenty of Iaas (Heroku...) a bit cheaper, and also don't forget that Amazon and other providers have Free Tier plans. Your first t2.nano instance is almost free (aws.amazon.com/free/)

For security on Cloud, I'm not sure a small company with on-premises servers can do better than the big fat Amazon and their impressive list of security compliance certificate (ISO 27001, etc) (aws.amazon.com/compliance/). You have sensitive documents: AWS S3 with encryption enabled. Boom. Done. Free (5 Gb free, a good start).