I mean, you did want to manage bare metal servers, right?
AWS almost certainly gets batches of bad hardware too. And if your services are running on the bad hardware, you can't have a peek inside and find the iron filings. For servers, this is probably not too bad, there used to be articles about dealing with less enthusiastic ec2 vms since a long time, and if you experience that, you'd find a way. AWS has enough capacity that you can probably get vms running on a different batch of hardware somehow. With owned hardaware, if it was your first order of important database servers and they're all dodgy, that's a pickle; HPE probably has quick support? once you realize it's their hardware.
If your cloud provider's network is dodgy though, you get to diagnose that as a blackbox which is lots of fun. Would have loved to have access to router statistics.
There's a lot of stuff in betwren AWS and on-prem/owned datacenter, too.
AWS almost certainly gets batches of bad hardware too. And if your services are running on the bad hardware, you can't have a peek inside and find the iron filings. For servers, this is probably not too bad, there used to be articles about dealing with less enthusiastic ec2 vms since a long time, and if you experience that, you'd find a way. AWS has enough capacity that you can probably get vms running on a different batch of hardware somehow. With owned hardaware, if it was your first order of important database servers and they're all dodgy, that's a pickle; HPE probably has quick support? once you realize it's their hardware.
If your cloud provider's network is dodgy though, you get to diagnose that as a blackbox which is lots of fun. Would have loved to have access to router statistics.
There's a lot of stuff in betwren AWS and on-prem/owned datacenter, too.