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0 pointsjacquesm2y ago0 comments

There's that beautiful German word again... schadenfreude. I have had similar discussions multiple times in the last year and the magic thinking around the cloud is so strong that it is sometimes impossible to get through. The fact that cloud stuff can go down and that in the end it is your data and no amount of cloud credits are going to help you if your data is lost seems to be utterly beyond some people's comprehension.

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madaxe_again2y ago

In this case it wasn’t so much “the cloud is invincible!” as “this appears to be a cost centre” - their whole shtick is to boost profitability in the short term by gutting businesses, and then selling them onwards to some other finance sucker.

I am sure that my name is currently being damned in a boardroom in Chicago, as as the person who warned of this, I am likely seen as responsible.

jacquesmOP2y ago

> I am sure that my name is currently being damned in a boardroom in Chicago, as as the person who warned of this, I am likely seen as responsible.

In that sense nothing ever changes. Anyway, kudos to you for staying the course on topics like these.

illumin82y ago

This really has nothing to do with cloud and is more of an "all eggs in one basket" problem. I wish people would stop painting cloud itself as less capable.

The fact is, most cloud providers offer multiple regions, which have the capability of giving you more geographic redundancy than most companies that operate in their own datacenters have.

Whether you choose to adopt a multi-region or multi-datacenter architecture is really orthogonal to whether you choose cloud or on-prem.

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