Comment by smnrchrds
6 years ago
> The equivalent scenario to recovering from a bulk erasure of all Azure RM resources is this
It just occurred to me how much easier it is to wipe everything in the cloud age than the on-prem age. Doing all the things you said for on-prem takes some serious effort. Some, like factory resets, may be impossible without individual physical access. You would probably be discovered and stopped before you can inflict much damage. In the cloud age however, it takes orders of magnitude less time and effort to inflict the same damage.
It is kinda like how much easier it is to steal data now. Before the digital age, stealing as much data as Equifax hack would have required moving truckloads of paper without being discovered. It was simply impossible to pull it off in reality. In the digital age, however, we have accepted massive data leaks as not only possible, but unavoidable.
> It just occurred to me how much easier it is to wipe everything in the cloud age than the on-prem age.
It's easier for physical facility damage to a single facility (whether hostile action or natural disaster) to wipe everything out in an on-prem setup than in the cloud, where multi-DC redundancy is a click away. But, sure, it's easier to wipe out data without physically destroying equipment in the cloud.