If I accidentally drop a table RDS have automatic backups and automatic snapshots.
> i.e. setting up security groups - same solution, better gui. Someone still needs to understand what it's doing.
Yes, but like being able to install wordpress doesn't mean you know how to program, setting up beanstalk+rds is not on the same level of expertise as setting up N machines from the ground up. When I start an RDS/CloudSearch/DynamoDB instance the security groups are already setup in a sensible way.
Sure, there are plenty of cases in which what AWS offers is not good enough. Heck having an ops team is always better than not having it.
But I replied to AWS only getting rid of "someone who can physically access the box". That seems reductive.
> i.e. setting up security groups - same solution, better gui. Someone still needs to understand what it's doing.
Yes, but like being able to install wordpress doesn't mean you know how to program, setting up beanstalk+rds is not on the same level of expertise as setting up N machines from the ground up. When I start an RDS/CloudSearch/DynamoDB instance the security groups are already setup in a sensible way.
Sure, there are plenty of cases in which what AWS offers is not good enough. Heck having an ops team is always better than not having it.
But I replied to AWS only getting rid of "someone who can physically access the box". That seems reductive.