Comment by asim
6 months ago
Just our bi-yearly reminder of our over reliance on cloud providers for literally everything. Can't say there's an answer beyond trying to build more independent tech but we know how that goes.
6 months ago
Just our bi-yearly reminder of our over reliance on cloud providers for literally everything. Can't say there's an answer beyond trying to build more independent tech but we know how that goes.
Yet migration to the cloud continues, driven by people arguing that doing it yourself is too complicated and expensive. Let’s see how long until one outage takes down the global economy for multiple days or weeks.
"The cloud" isn't the problem nor is migration to it. The problem is single points of failure in a vast, super-connected, global network.
To demonstrate my point, say someone like cloudflare opted to get "off cloud" and run their own datacenters. Half the web would still go down if they had some issue in their datacenters. If anything, the economy of scale and resiliency of a huge cloud network is far beyond what any single operator can ensure for their own service. If this wasn't the case, cloud services couldn't be as profitable as they are.
It isn't the panacea people seem to think it is. One critical service going down, regardless of whether it's cloud hosted or not, has ripple effects in the broader network.
Hilariously, I did not know about any outages today during the workday because we discourage cloud service usage and nobody complained about anything breaking. :)