While I have seen some cloud infrastructures running on life support with minimal supervision for years, AWS tends to shut down, deprecate or migrate backing services every now and then.
ASGs stop autoscaling. RDS forces version upgrades. EBS volumes go poof. Kube APIs vanish. Upstream AMIs, docker images or apt packages get moved to different repo URLs.
Sooner or later some auto upgrade or scaling group would go awry and take out a persistent data store or cause services to fail.
There’s also the possibility for an unpatched vulnerability to get exploited.
I give it about 3-6 months, depending on the architecture pattern.
While I have seen some cloud infrastructures running on life support with minimal supervision for years, AWS tends to shut down, deprecate or migrate backing services every now and then.
ASGs stop autoscaling. RDS forces version upgrades. EBS volumes go poof. Kube APIs vanish. Upstream AMIs, docker images or apt packages get moved to different repo URLs. Sooner or later some auto upgrade or scaling group would go awry and take out a persistent data store or cause services to fail.
There’s also the possibility for an unpatched vulnerability to get exploited.
I give it about 3-6 months, depending on the architecture pattern.