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The Hidden Costs of DIY Cloud Infrastructure (And How to Escape Them)
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Many organizations believe DIY cloud infrastructure saves money — until outages, security gaps, and talent risk expose the truth. In this episode, we unpack the five hidden costs of DIY cloud environments that don’t show up in spreadsheets but quietly compound over time.
We explore how custom scripts create operational risk, why security patching becomes a constant gamble, how untested backups threaten business continuity, and why tribal knowledge turns people into single points of failure. We also break down the real cost of building an internal DevOps team versus adopting a modern platform approach that automates best practices inside your own cloud.
If you’re a CTO, VP of Engineering, or senior technical leader inheriting legacy infrastructure, this episode gives you a clear framework to evaluate risk — and a practical path forward that doesn’t involve ripping everything out overnight.
What You’ll Learn
- Why DIY cloud scripts become dangerous over time
- How tribal knowledge creates organizational fragility
- The real risk behind manual patching and backups
- Why hiring DevOps is far more expensive than it looks
- How platforms eliminate operational, security, and scaling risks
- A safe, incremental way to modernize cloud infrastructure
Watch Explainer Video: https://youtu.be/DQ5S7Gdsgo0
Credits:
https://www.devpanel.com/
Salim (Sal) Lakhani, / sklakhani
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This episode of DrupalBrief is sponsored by DrupalForge.org
DrupalBrief.com
187 episodes
Manage episode 524724589 series 3646239
Many organizations believe DIY cloud infrastructure saves money — until outages, security gaps, and talent risk expose the truth. In this episode, we unpack the five hidden costs of DIY cloud environments that don’t show up in spreadsheets but quietly compound over time.
We explore how custom scripts create operational risk, why security patching becomes a constant gamble, how untested backups threaten business continuity, and why tribal knowledge turns people into single points of failure. We also break down the real cost of building an internal DevOps team versus adopting a modern platform approach that automates best practices inside your own cloud.
If you’re a CTO, VP of Engineering, or senior technical leader inheriting legacy infrastructure, this episode gives you a clear framework to evaluate risk — and a practical path forward that doesn’t involve ripping everything out overnight.
What You’ll Learn
- Why DIY cloud scripts become dangerous over time
- How tribal knowledge creates organizational fragility
- The real risk behind manual patching and backups
- Why hiring DevOps is far more expensive than it looks
- How platforms eliminate operational, security, and scaling risks
- A safe, incremental way to modernize cloud infrastructure
Watch Explainer Video: https://youtu.be/DQ5S7Gdsgo0
Credits:
https://www.devpanel.com/
Salim (Sal) Lakhani, / sklakhani
---
This episode of DrupalBrief is sponsored by DrupalForge.org
DrupalBrief.com
187 episodes
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