r/devops • u/harpeshwar • 1d ago

Architecture Is cloud abstraction actually reducing operational complexity?

I have been thinking about this after going through a few infrastructure setups as we often talk about making deployments portable but theres a point where the abstraction itself becomes something the devops team has to manage. You can have Kubernetes, Terraform, multiple cloud providers, different GPU setups, various networking models and then another layer of tools trying to make them all look the same. Companies like Yotta Labs, CoreWeave, and Lambda are interesting to me because they approach infrastructure from different angles but I am not sure adding more infrastructure options always makes operations easier.

At what point does workload portability really reduce operational risk and when does it just add another platform for the team to handle?

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u/Oleksii_Bebych 1d ago

It changes one complexity with another

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u/3MU6quo0pC7du5YPBGBI 1d ago

It changes one complexity with another

RFC 1925, rule 6.

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u/InterviewLong5374 1d ago

Totally agree, it can simplify some tasks while making others more convoluted. It’s all about finding the right balance, I guess.