> CrowdStrike followed up with Delta on the offer for onsite support and was told that the onsite resources were not needed
> Even though Microsoft's software had not caused the CrowdStrike incident, Microsoft immediately jumped in and offered to assist Delta at no charge following the July 19 outage," the letter said. "Each day that followed from July 19 through July 23, Microsoft employees repeated their offers to help Delta. Each time, Delta turned down Microsoft's offers to help, even though Microsoft would not have charged Delta for this assistance
Two vendors offer you free on-site help, during the biggest outage in history, and you turn it down?
This isn't the CIA, it's Delta Airlines. Bring those overpriced security monkeys in, make em sign an NDA, and have them sit there and watch you type.
To not do that... even if they were useless... I can't find a justification ....... other than being able to later claim it wasn't Delta's fault it was down so long, and nobody having evidence to the contrary.
Realistically speaking AWS and GCP are not that different and anyone who has 5 years experience in one can quickly pick up the other. But teams will often go with the person who has experience in the stack they use, just because it's an easier way to weed through the stack of 300 resumes. Hiring is broken mostly because of reliance on resumes.