Comment by ManBeardPc
6 months ago
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.
6 months ago
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.