Wulfy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>On the upside, the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a> cloud infrastructure is such that it's much easier to spin up iron...</p><p>...or to coin a word, "precipitation" (if it's in the cloud).</p><p>I got my <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/VPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VPS</span></a> builds to about 30min...that's from the time you register an account, to when you have a fully functional system.</p><p>Now, it takes longer if you have a load balanced stack and distributed database, and while I have no first hand knowledge of complex <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> infrastructure, from my cursory investigation, the most time demanding sink would be moving your massive database.</p>