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The Universal Scapegoat

The Universal Scapegoat
The universal scapegoat has arrived! Nothing says "not my problem" like blaming AWS for literally everything that breaks. On-call engineers have mastered the art of deflection with that smug "sorry, can't help" smile while your production site is burning to the ground. The best part? Nobody can prove them wrong because AWS status page will eventually show some obscure service in us-east-1 having "elevated error rates" approximately 6 hours after your CEO has already sent angry texts.

Had Todo It

Had Todo It
Ah, the sacred weekend on-call rotation—where pants become optional but existential dread is mandatory. Nothing quite captures the soul-crushing reality of DevOps life like getting that 2 AM alert because some intern pushed directly to production on a Saturday. There you sit, in your underwear, contemplating every career choice that led to this moment while Slack notifications light up your phone like a Christmas tree. The best part? Monday morning, management will ask why it took you 7 minutes to respond instead of 5. Because apparently sleep is just a suggestion when you've signed that SLA agreement with your soul.

Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win

Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
The SRE just found the ultimate money hack. AWS is basically a financial black hole where your cloud budget goes to die. Launch a few over-provisioned instances, forget about that auto-scaling group for a weekend, or accidentally deploy to all regions simultaneously, and boom—you've burned through $100M faster than you can say "terraform destroy." The genie adding a fourth rule is just acknowledging the universal truth that AWS billing is basically legalized theft with a nice dashboard.

Nothing Is Wrong (Everything Is Fine)

Nothing Is Wrong (Everything Is Fine)
Ah, the classic "No major incidents" status page showing complete service outages across the board. That special moment when your cloud provider's dashboard says everything is fine while your production environment is literally on fire. The date is from the future (2025) which means we have exciting new catastrophic failures to look forward to! Nothing builds character like explaining to your CEO why the app is down while the status page cheerfully reports all systems normal. It's just a little apocalypse, nothing to worry about!

The Genie's Fourth Rule: No AWS

The Genie's Fourth Rule: No AWS
The SRE just found the ultimate loophole to the genie's billion-dollar challenge, and the genie immediately shut that down faster than you can say "unexpected billing alert." Anyone who's ever deployed anything on AWS knows that mysterious $100M bill is just a few forgotten EC2 instances away. One day you're launching a "small test environment," the next day you're explaining to your CEO why your startup needs another funding round just to pay this month's cloud bill. Even supernatural beings with infinite cosmic power know better than to mess with AWS pricing. The fourth rule? "No cloud services that scale automatically and drain your life savings while you sleep."

There Are Four Rules Now

There Are Four Rules Now
DARLING, SWEETIE, HONEY! The SRE just found the ultimate money-burning hack! 🔥💸 Spend $100M in a month? CHILD'S PLAY when you unleash the apocalyptic billing nightmare that is AWS! One forgotten test instance and BOOM - your cloud bill looks like the GDP of a small nation! The genie's face when realizing AWS exists is the EXACT same expression your finance team makes when they see your "small prototype" somehow cost more than your annual salary. The fourth rule was INEVITABLE, darling!

Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win

Run An EC2 For 5 Mins And Win
The ultimate cheat code for burning through money: Amazon Web Services! 💸 Anyone who's ever received an unexpected AWS bill knows the pain. You spin up an EC2 instance thinking "I'll just test this quickly" and suddenly your credit card is sobbing in the corner. The SRE in this joke knows that AWS could easily burn through $100M without breaking a sweat – no gambling or frivolous spending required! The genie adding a fourth rule is basically saying, "Nice try, smartypants. I'm not falling for that cloud computing money pit."

The Fourth Rule: No AWS

The Fourth Rule: No AWS
The fastest way to burn through $100M? Just whisper "AWS" and watch your bank account evaporate. That SRE knew exactly what they were doing - nothing drains a budget faster than spinning up a few "right-sized" EC2 instances and forgetting about them for a weekend. The genie immediately adding a fourth rule is basically Amazon's business model in a nutshell. Honestly, at least gambling gives you a chance of winning something back.