yea i also think it's weird that people who aren't doing work for organizations champion using aws/gcp/azure. we've all been around computers for a hot minute,

yea i also think it's weird that people who aren't doing work for organizations champion using aws/gcp/azure. we've all been around computers for a hot minute, we've seen stuff that is exciting and fun and easy to use, and stuff that is not. i occasionally do a bit of aws and azure deployments for work, everything is reduced to yaml hell, i think its the most over convoluted experience ever to do anything and opaque billing strategies, abstractions, it's just gross. its hard to be passionate about that stuff. i kind of laugh when people at my org talk about colocation and elastic strategies for some podunk reporting app, like the bare minimum sla 99.9999999% uptime and runs in regions close to the data and weeks of planning to have like a stupid crud app that maybe five people. use. everything has to neatly fit into this one size fits all cloud strategy the infra/devops team came up with and they could've just run multiple apps off a server rack in the office it's literally an internal tool. or hell they could've just came up with a desktop app deployment strategy to company devices and not used any cloud services. feels so boring feel like the field of "devops" just kinda threw their hands up got really weird this past decade, and like you said just kinda bought into the deployment strats aws/gcp/azure pulled out of their ass.