What to Do When the Cloud Comes Crashing Down
Found on eWEEK on Thursday, 24 September 2015
If it seems like major services have been crashing a lot lately and for extended periods, you're not imagining things. A cluster of crashes has plagued users of a wide variety of high-profile cloud services in the past month.
There's nothing magical about the cloud. "The cloud" is just somebody else's computers located somewhere else. All the problems that exist in one's own data-center can exist within the cloud services.
The cloud comes with a certain degree of helplessness.
All because a few "smart" people type numbers into their calculators and come up with the result that outsourcing critical infrastructure saves 1% per year. You can do that with unimportant parts where you just shrug and move on when they go offline, but you don't want the core of your company to depend on the uptime of someone else. Not to mention that storing business information outside your full control is retarded.