I'm interested in this as well.
Also what kind of news outlets? I find that traditional news media is often behind a community of insiders if you can find them on Twitter or something like it.
Check out Adam's "What if infrastructure as code never existed" talk from a month or two ago. Great framing for SI and entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4
> Back in the day, front end, back end, operations, and DBAs separated because they needed different skills. Now we accept that a software team needs all the skills. We group by responsibility instead — responsibility for business value, not for activities
> We once layered by serving data to software. Now we layer by serving value to people.
This is a nice narrative for the rise of developer products, where there used to not be a market.
Getting a way out by selling your RIs was important due to there inflexibility. I think those who feel they may want that could opt for the compute plan which is useful as long as you use EC2 in any form.