Comment by sschueller
4 hours ago
A lot of Swiss government services do not need to be available 247 outside of the country.
There is no need for the SBB (Swiss national railway) to use cloudflare or AWS when the same can be provided by a local provider that also has the ability to deal with large DDOS and cap off the outside when it comes down to the wire. It is more important for someone in Switzerland to be able to purchase a ticket than someone planning a trip from abroad.
>A lot of Swiss government services do not need to be available 247 outside of the country.
Obviously without talking specifics it's hard to discuss, but I'd hate to be a Swiss who was traveling abroad and had to access the gov website deemed "not 24/7" in an emergency of some kind (planning travel for the next day for the railway for example), or to finish something due to a goverment imposed deadline.
quite shameful to me that SBB uses so much AWS stuff, considering the amount of IT workers it has. but what are you gonna do, MGMT hears about cloud being cheaper and better and proceeds to change the whole strategy. hope they'll seriously invest into own DCs again or at least use local providers.
considering how relevant SBB is to a functioning Switzerland it really feels like they should be in control of their own Infra.
A swiss could be planning a trip from abroad.