Thanks, will take a look at that curl thing. We are still using this and been working for us for ~15 years (python 2, ported to python 3) and this is just an example of how to take https://fabfile.org to the extreme but still is not the best way to do it. We only ~50 servers so it is not a massive fleet. The convenience of typing `fab <env> <role> <task>` to do things under control is still better than nothing :)
Fundamental no but mechanically yes. GCP is more abstracted IMHO so you are in some areas "higher" level, AWS has lots of super deep stuff like all those policy configurations for IAM, etc. are VERY different. You are already ahead of the game because you are using Terraform and not vendor locked in to something like Cloudformation
How about the reverse of this? Had to let go of 2 people because I do not know how to hire (apparently) as the people I hired looked good on resume, did ok in interview (but I may also be bad at that) but could not really perform the work ("simple" LEMP stack)
Digitalocean Spaces uses Ceph as their backend and it is NOT stable (at least with s3fs), had to migrate away from it and could not do a full-stack on DO (aka "no AWS") and had to swap in Wasabi.
I think this is mostly true but depends on the industry and "critical mass". If you have enough people, then letting people go and then filling in with OT hours (remaining people) is still more cost effective all things being equal (some people may actually welcome the OT hours here and there) and not chronic understaffing
This is most likely what is happening is the shopping website and AWS are now trying to make you create at least 2 accounts and the captchas will start showing after that
Specially for regulated industries and if the company you work for has clients in regulated industries and up the chain of clients. What if somebody steals your laptop with NPI/PII data. As with a lot of things, a lot of stuff only matters when things go bad (like somebody stealing your laptop)
too many crappy websites, probably needs a "committee" to whitelist domains (only good quality ones) but probably too much work for not enough money or needs some monetization strategy