(Inspired by “American Pie” by Don McLean) A Long, Long Time Ago A long, long time agoI can still remember howCanvas used to make me smile.And I knew if I logged in then,I’d get my grades and check again,And maybe I’d submit my work in style. But early that October day,The pages froze, then slipped away.Bad news on the website—I
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The cloud does not simplify IT. It just outsources your chaos and bills you monthly. The Great Cloud Pilgrimage They told everyone to move to the cloud. Like it was heaven. Like salvation came with a service-level agreement.They said it was modern, secure, efficient. They said it would set you free from cables, servers, and the smell of burning UPS
Every cloud evangelist has their talking points. Some worship AWS like it is the promised land. Others treat Azure as the inevitable choice of big business and government. But for those of us who have traced packets, rebuilt VLANs in the dark, and prayed through failed routes at 2 a.m., this debate is not about branding. It is about control,
Let’s get this out of the way: AWS is like that one overachieving kid in class who has 900 extracurriculars, speaks six languages, and somehow still gets perfect attendance. Impressive? Yes. Overkill for most of us? Absolutely. So when it came time for me, a solo IT administrator, to pick a cloud platform for our small but mighty public utility,