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My take on this whole cloud fatigue is that system maintenance got overly complex over the last couple years/decades. So much that management people now think that it's too expensive in terms of hiring people that can do it compared to the higher managed hosting costs.

DevOps and kubernetes come to mind. A lot of people using kubernetes don't know what they're getting into, and k0s or another single machine solution would have been enough for 99% of SMEs.

In terms of cyber security (my field) everything got so ridiculously complex that even the folks that use 3 different dashboards in parallel will guess the answers as to whether or not they're affected by a bug/RCE/security flaw/weakness because all of the data sources (even the expensively paid for ones) are human-edited text databases. They're so buggy that they even have Chinese idiom symbols instead of a dot character in the version fields without anyone ever fixing it upstream in the NVD/CVE process.

I started to build my EDR agent for POSIX systems specifically, because I hope that at some point this can help companies to ditch the cloud and allows them to selfhost again - which in return would indirectly prevent 13 year old kids like from LAPSUS to pwn major infrastructure via simple tech support hotline calls.

When I think of it in terms of hosting, the vertical scalability of EPYC machines is so high that most of the time when you need its resources you are either doing something completely wrong and you should refactor your code or you are a video streaming service.



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