Azure Appears to Be Full
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Azure Appears to Be Full
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#2There is something satisfying about the bounds of the cloud metaphor being reached (a cloud can't fill the sky).
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#3Yep, 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.
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#4I'm watching many struggle also with on-prem VPNs, Citrix, WebEx, and so on. Though there do seem to be honest efforts to shore those up and also try more modern tools. I imagine a lot of stodgy companies will have a much better WFH environment after all the dust settles.
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#5I think this introduces some interesting points to the DR and BCP conversation.
Is it a safe bet that we can rely on the cloud to have capacity? Normally I wouldn't doubt it but in this sort of situation is becomes more likely they will be put under capacity stress.
Will the cloud vendors learn and build slack in? I think they're very lean operations and maybe this kind of slack would damage the profitability too much.
If the cloud vendors can't guarantee capacity ( I suspect this will be the conclusion ) then what does they mean for our DR and BCP planning?
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#6AWS and GCP are not full
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#7That would explain why I have to wait sometimes ~1h until the Azure DevOps queued pipelines build starts.
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#8This is a bit like the financial crisis in 2008.
In 2008, the idea was that if you bundle up a large bunch of mortgages, then the bundle will have low risk because the chances of everything failing at the same time is low. The cloud is designed so that resource usage spikes of individual customers can always be served because one customer is very small compared to the whole infrastructure.
However, in some cases, these mortgages/resource spikes become highly correlated.
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#9AWS and GCP are not full
Feels like an opportunity for building a service that uses AWS, GCP or Azure based on which is cheapest at that moment + which is not "full"... Unless that already exists.
Re: Azure Appears to Be Full
#10AWS and GCP are not full
Feels like an opportunity for building a service that uses AWS, GCP or Azure based on which is cheapest at that moment + which is not "full"... Unless that already exists.
The famous "multi cloud" or "cloud agnostic" thing. We're not there yet.
AWS, GCP & Azure still feel like a lot like PC, Amiga and Macintosh at this moment.