Nah, they're still actively selling/implementing the backing service/tech for other orgs.

That’s kinda what I figured. At this point it seems like they all have the same general configuration of coolers and shelves and the same cameras all angled in the same setup everywhere so I assume it’s all down to one very strict CV model or something…

How do you sanitize hardware between workloads?

My clients (extremely large) AWS based infrastructure experienced no downtime this year. So, if it's based on some random person's clients, it's not clearly better at all.

I don't use cloud flare for anything, so no comment there.

> So, if it's based on some random person's clients, it's not clearly better at all.

Valid. I should have made it clear that I meant "clearly better from GP's perspective."

Clearly better than what though?

I have some reaallllly bad news for you on that front.

Same capability is now just a storage class in S3.

Having more money than free time but still wanting a thing to get done. Lots of folks pay good money for hobbies (video games, golf fees, bicycle purchases, etc.).

Can you deduct these expenditures fully in income tax?

You could deduct them if you have a corporation with some reasonable claim to the IP behind the projects, or a clear business reason for needing the features. There’s probably no clear settled tax law on the specific topic, but I’m sure it would pass an audit as long as there isn’t some egregiously obvious non-business related work being bountied.

TAMs are super hit and miss. We’ve had great ones (hi Nick!) and not so great ones. ($7-10M/mo customer AWS spend, support is a complicated sliding scale % of that, gogo ES!). Non-ES at smaller customers has been universally useless, except at quota increases.

If you're pushing 10 mil per month through AWS, I pray you have some bitcoin miners hidden in that spend. The mind reels

Multiple large scale SAP S4/HANA workloads wasting electrons…

At this scale it may make sense to run your own mini data centers?

There’s lots of those too.

The service teams don’t talk to each other…

I think that is by design https://konghq.com/blog/enterprise/api-mandate

Call it bad luck, but I’ve never had a fully successful restore. Drives eat tapes, drives are damaged and write bad data, robot arms die or malfunction. Tapes have NEVER worked for me. SANs and remote disk though, rock solid.

That said, I don’t miss any of that stuff, gimme S3 any day :)

You do realized that that isn't normal at all? LTO tape is still used by thousands of companies to backup many exabytes of data. I know it once saved Google from permanent loss of gmail data from a bug. You should really get a refund for your tape drives.