Skycraft – Building Clouds and Wrangling Robots with Brittany Woods

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Google Cloud Platform

Jonan: No, this is for me. So the transition definitely complicates things because the clouds…everyone wants to be cloud-agnostic. I think what's driving that is we want to be able to quit AWS when their sales team tries to extort us for more money and threaten to go to Azure and make it a real threat because the lock-in was real and continues to be real. But then you get to this place where you're cloud-agnostic, and then it's a race to the bottom. If we commoditize all of these services, then nobody's really going to move again. Then we go back through the whole cycle, and history repeats itself. But in transitioning, how much are you seeing that is the same. I have to admit; I’m entirely unfamiliar with Azure's offering. I know a little GCP. I know a fair amount of AWS. But I've used Azure maybe once.

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Microsoft Azure

Jonan: No, this is for me. So the transition definitely complicates things because the clouds…everyone wants to be cloud-agnostic. I think what's driving that is we want to be able to quit AWS when their sales team tries to extort us for more money and threaten to go to Azure and make it a real threat because the lock-in was real and continues to be real. But then you get to this place where you're cloud-agnostic, and then it's a race to the bottom. If we commoditize all of these services, then nobody's really going to move again. Then we go back through the whole cycle, and history repeats itself. But in transitioning, how much are you seeing that is the same. I have to admit; I’m entirely unfamiliar with Azure's offering. I know a little GCP. I know a fair amount of AWS. But I've used Azure maybe once.

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Amazon S3

And what I see day to day is Terraform, Chef. You also have things like Packer and Azure Image Builder, which is basically Packer, a lot of that. And then personally, just trying to wrap my head and wheels around Azure as a whole coming from an AWS background. I'm a firm believer in cloud is cloud is cloud, but also you have to know the difference between an S3 bucket and a Blob. The words are different, and the way things are structured are a little different so just understanding that coming from the AWS shop.

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Amazon AWS

Jonan: Yeah, [chuckles] one DevOps, please. So you get the buy-in from the executive team, and you slow them down a little bit. And they're very often in the business of not slowing down. It's kind of their job to be the person who's just like, "Just do the thing. Go." But let's say you're successful there. Then what I'm hearing, and I'm just trying to make sure I understand, is that you're going to teams and putting together an education plan almost. Like, here is this feature of our platform that we're going to transition to cloud services, and it's going to use these AWS services or these Azure services. And we're going to help you level up on those services. We're going to add these to your existing skillset, which we are taking full advantage of. And thank you for coming here and contributing to this effort, that kind of work.

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