AWS control freak can now manage ON-PREMISES servers

Apologies if you're tired of the word “disruption”, but please tolerate it just one more time because Amazon Web Services has just done something mighty disruptive: allowed its OpsWork control-freak-as-a-service to wrangle on-premises servers. OpsWorks is an infrastructure automation tool that aims to make it easier to deploy …

[Adam Inistrator]

software rental

sounds like 15$/month/server or $180/year/server to rent their software, on full time basis anyway

[Philip Mather]

Even less work for the true BOFH...

Now, when the intersnizzle falls on it's face you can not only wipe you hands of restoring your cloud hosted services but you can claim that you can no longer manage your own on-prem kit as well. ;^)

Let's make the best efforts, decentralised, ball of chaos that is the Internet a single point of failure for our entire civilisation. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?