[sksjvsla]

If you want me to assess what I would be needing the next 5-10 years, I'd make a very different thread here on HN.

The defining conditions is my current setup and business requirement. It works well and we've resisted pretending that we know where we will be in 5 years.

I am reminded of the 2023 story of the surprisingly simple infra of Stack Overflow[1] and the 2025 story of that Stack overflow is almost dead[2]

Given that the setup works now, one can't add that it is only working "for now". I see no client demand in the foreseeable future leading me to think that this has been fundamentally architected incorrectly.

[1] https://x.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952

[2] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...

[iLoveOncall]

That is absolutely not what I was talking about.

I'm talking about the issues that will happen to your current setup and requirement. Disaster recovery, monitoring, etc.

[sksjvsla]

> Disaster recovery, monitoring, etc

The ISO 27001 has me audited for just that (disaster recovery and monitoring) so that settles it, no?

Also worth noting that these are the two things you don't really get from the hyperscalers. If you want to count on more than their uptime guarantees, you have to roll some DR yourself and while you might think that this is easy, it is not easier than doing it with Terraform and Ansible on other clouds.

I have had my DR and monitoring audited in its AWS and EU version. One was no easier or harder than the other.

But the EU setup gave me a clear answer to clients on CLOUD act, Shrems II, GDPR, Safe Harbor, which is a competitive advantage.