> PS: I am not saying security team are assholes, I am pointing out a major barrier to competition.
> Here is an experiment - tell your employer you will be hosting on (insert no-name provider here), to same a literal million dollars, and see if you can get security team to sign off on it.
???
So what does this have to do with the security team at all? There is no "barrier" in that sense.
In the past we've had more non-cloud engineers than cloud. Using your experiment, if you told your IT team you wanted to move to the cloud (back then) to save a million dollars - do you think they'd sign off on it? No.
Who signed off on it? The bosses that believed in the "hype".
Who's in control and who has power? If the bosses want it to happen it will even if it doesn't make sense. They have the ability to fire the security team if they said no. Just like how ethical AI teams get fired...
The barrier is those in power still believe in the "hype" and don't know otherwise.
I met a CTO of a startup sometime ago that moved their entire operations from GCP to AWS because they were "more familiar with it". That's all.
> I met a CTO of a startup sometime ago that moved their entire operations from GCP to AWS because they were "more familiar with it". That's all.
Without knowing which startup you are referring to its hard to make a judgement as to the quality of the decision but you should not discount the role tooling familiarity has when developing software.
> but you should not discount the role tooling familiarity has when developing software.
No 1 was familiar with the cloud when it 1st came out.
As to this scenario, clearly the whole company was running GCP so everyone minus the new CTO would be familiar with GCP vs something else.
Point exactly being that regardless of the security team or the developers - this familiarity that you mention or any other trait only applies to a select few in management.
> Here is an experiment - tell your employer you will be hosting on (insert no-name provider here), to same a literal million dollars, and see if you can get security team to sign off on it.
???
So what does this have to do with the security team at all? There is no "barrier" in that sense.
In the past we've had more non-cloud engineers than cloud. Using your experiment, if you told your IT team you wanted to move to the cloud (back then) to save a million dollars - do you think they'd sign off on it? No.
Who signed off on it? The bosses that believed in the "hype".
Who's in control and who has power? If the bosses want it to happen it will even if it doesn't make sense. They have the ability to fire the security team if they said no. Just like how ethical AI teams get fired...
The barrier is those in power still believe in the "hype" and don't know otherwise.
I met a CTO of a startup sometime ago that moved their entire operations from GCP to AWS because they were "more familiar with it". That's all.