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Including the CIA. Snowden will be happy!
Isn't AWS GovCloud a dedicated set of DCs for government? I'm sure the CIA can give DMV jobs the boot if need be.
I think it's very problematic that a major cloud provider is unable to update their status page, even when this has been ongoing for days. All green ticks here: https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
Yep, people are finally realizing that 'cloud' isn't something magical and limitless. It's just a bunch of servers, connected together, with each having a limit as to how much data in can store and process.
It's understandable to be surprised, it's not every day everyone needs resources at once at the same time, although some foresight a month before couldn't have hurt
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Isn't AWS GovCloud a dedicated set of DCs for government? I'm sure the CIA can give DMV jobs the boot if need be.
Just the US government. They even have special racist hiring policies to comply with the strict regulations set about who is allowed to be in the building where the US government holds your data.
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Including the CIA. Snowden will be happy!
Isn't AWS GovCloud a dedicated set of DCs for government? I'm sure the CIA can give DMV jobs the boot if need be.
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Just the US government. They even have special racist hiring policies to comply with the strict regulations set about who is allowed to be in the building where the US government holds your data.
race != nationality != citizenship
I bet AWS or GCP will never have a problem like this because they're not stupid enough to operate at only 20% spare capacity at any given time
Coincidental?
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bUt ThE sAlEs GuY sAiD tHe ClOuD iS cHeApEr!
No one who works with cloud infrastructure would tell you the cloud is cheaper on a resource basis. It’s only cheaper if you can take advantage of elasticity and use managed services to reduce the overhead of managing infrastructure. But then don’t hire a bunch of old school net ops folks who got one certification and call themselves consultants when all they know how to do are lift and shifts.
Literally everywhere I go, and it's a lot of different organisations, there's people at every level and every job title unconditionally stating that the cloud is "cheaper".
They look at a cloud VM tier that is literally 3x more expensive per year than their current hardware and say that it is "cheaper" with a straight face.
They look at a SaaS that costs $1M per year while they're currently "burning" $200K in staffing costs to maintain an equivalent on-prem and say that they have to move to the cloud to save money.
They run VMs 24/7 with zero users and say that this is efficiency.
Nobody I've seen uses reserved instances or any similar cost-cutting measure, such as spot instances.
For fuck's sake, I just worked on a project to move users from one cloud service that cost $30/user/month to another cloud service that costs $100/user/month supposedly to... wait for... "save money".
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No one who works with cloud infrastructure would tell you the cloud is cheaper on a resource basis. It’s only cheaper if you can take advantage of elasticity and use managed services to reduce the overhead of managing infrastructure. But then don’t hire a bunch of old school net ops folks who got one certification and call themselves consultants when all they know how to do are lift and shifts.
Can I visit the planet you -- and the three guys that voted my post down -- live on? Please? Literally everywhere I go, and it's a lot of different organisations, there's people at every level and every job title unconditionally stating that the cloud is "cheaper". They look at a cloud VM tier that is literally 3x more expensive per year than their current hardware and say that it is "cheaper" with a straight face. T…
But then don’t hire a bunch of old school net ops folks who got one certification and call themselves consultants when all they know how to do are lift and shifts.
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race != nationality != citizenship
Racism is normally implemented on attibutes other than race. Instead some aspect of the targeted that the race is used. So this does not disprove the contention by itself.