“It’s fair to say that we never realized the promise that the cloud would simplify our life.”
37signals went from its own data centers to ECS, then GKE until control plane outages chased it off, then EKS. Its smallest app, Tadalist, a basic Rails app, needed a VPC, peering, RDS, pods and a pile of infrastructure as code. Running vendor Kubernetes on its own hardware turned out expensive too. The cloud promised a simpler life and delivered a second job.