AWS - a retelling of The Emperor's New Clothes

Most of us are familiar with Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale The Emperor's New Clothes where an emperor is swindled into thinking he has received a beautiful new suit when in fact he gets nothing and no one is brave enough to admit it.

My experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other major cloud vendors feels like déjà vu.  With so much hype and management pressure and sales pitches with promises of free tiers and effortless scaling, I naively drank the punch like everyone else.

Slowly, painfully, the reports and the realization started to sink in.

I've been wanting to summarize my experience for some time but have found it challenging to describe exactly why the emperor's clothing from AWS seems so removed from reality.  Fortunately, I recently came across this fantastic article by Pedro Sostre that describes it perfectly!  READ IT before committing to any cloud provider!

...whew!  my civic duty and conscience are now complete.


P.S. Here's another good read