This post was contributed by Andrea Veri from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME has historically hosted its infrastructure on premises. That changed with an AWS Open Source Credits program sponsorship which has allowed our team of two SREs to migrate the majority of the workloads to the cloud and turn the existing OpenShift environment into a fully scalable and fault tolerant one thanks to the infrastructure provided by AWS. By moving to the cloud, we have dramatically reduced the maintenance...
    • Leaflet@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Amazon is giving this service to Gnome for free. If anything, this is hurting them.

        • Sandbag@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Let’s take a moment and back up. And you’re scenario, you say you wouldn’t drive a Tesla if it was free, but would your tune change if you needed a car to get to him from work if you had a car that was broken down and needed to make sure you got to work and get necessities for yourself and for your family.

        • Leaflet@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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          1 month ago

          The benefit for Amazon is good PR and supporting open source projects their engineers use.