Aaaaaand example #99999… Of why tech sovereignty is so important. The moment you start outsourcing your control, you become vulnerable to this exact kind of action by a company.
Everybody got sucked into the cloud “magic” for years, but now we are seeing the monster emerge more and more as proprietary technology enshitifies.
Luckily, there is a boom happening across the FOSS world, more and more people are finally waking up to the principles of software freedom and actual ownership.
May it continue to grow, as the corpos struggle and wither.
I was working as a sadmin (like a sysadmin but more alcoholism) when the cloud butt became all the rage.
Suddenly nobody wanted to host services on the hypervisor down the road, administered by someone you could throttle call in a crisis. Nobody wanted to hire a monkey to keep their local tubes clean and run the basic stuff they needed.
Everyone could tell you that once they had your overbuilt shit locked in to their very specific apis and services they had you by the short and curlies and by god were they gonna squeeze for all you were worth.
Alas, nobody cared because initial offerings were cheap and your stupid magento storefront had to be webscale.
Now 6 companies control the internet and everything else is going that way too.
Everyone could tell you that once they had your overbuilt shit locked in to their very specific apis and services they had you by the short and curlies and by god were they gonna squeeze for all you were worth.
On-prem solutions don’t necessarily protect companies from this either though. Anyone staring down the barrel of a Broadcom renewal for on-prem VMware licenses knows this pain.
Broadcom’s screwing over of VMware has been the biggest accelerator of migration into the cloud in the last 5 years.
There are FOSS hypervisors that are more than adequate for almost everyone’s useage. I would not advise anyone to make any single company a critical part of their infrastructure unless you are tightly integrated in a mutually beneficial arrangement.
If you have your own sysadmin then you don’t tend to get as fucked, alternatively migrating hypervisor software is a fuckload easier than migrating from a cloud service provider.
Aaaaaand example #99999… Of why tech sovereignty is so important. The moment you start outsourcing your control, you become vulnerable to this exact kind of action by a company.
Everybody got sucked into the cloud “magic” for years, but now we are seeing the monster emerge more and more as proprietary technology enshitifies.
Luckily, there is a boom happening across the FOSS world, more and more people are finally waking up to the principles of software freedom and actual ownership.
May it continue to grow, as the corpos struggle and wither.
I was working as a sadmin (like a sysadmin but more alcoholism) when the cloud butt became all the rage.
Suddenly nobody wanted to host services on the hypervisor down the road, administered by someone you could throttle call in a crisis. Nobody wanted to hire a monkey to keep their local tubes clean and run the basic stuff they needed.
Everyone could tell you that once they had your overbuilt shit locked in to their very specific apis and services they had you by the short and curlies and by god were they gonna squeeze for all you were worth.
Alas, nobody cared because initial offerings were cheap and your stupid magento storefront had to be webscale.
Now 6 companies control the internet and everything else is going that way too.
On-prem solutions don’t necessarily protect companies from this either though. Anyone staring down the barrel of a Broadcom renewal for on-prem VMware licenses knows this pain.
Broadcom’s screwing over of VMware has been the biggest accelerator of migration into the cloud in the last 5 years.
There are FOSS hypervisors that are more than adequate for almost everyone’s useage. I would not advise anyone to make any single company a critical part of their infrastructure unless you are tightly integrated in a mutually beneficial arrangement.
If you have your own sysadmin then you don’t tend to get as fucked, alternatively migrating hypervisor software is a fuckload easier than migrating from a cloud service provider.