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Amazon's Hot New Item: Its Data Center
- brk 19y agoAn interesting article, although nothing really new if you've been following AWS for a while. The part I just don't get though is the mentality that having core systems in-house is a "liability". Yes, you do need to understand servers, load-balancers, network designs, etc to do this in-hosue. I've been bitten too many times by vendors that have their thumbs up their ass on even simple things. 12 hours to restore 100MB of data (after an email ticketing back-and-forth volley that rivaled a Wimbledon match). Servers being hastily shut-down with no notice. 90 minutes for a managed services provider to add a firewall rule to block an (admittedly juvenile) DoS/bot-gone-bad. And, I could go on. I just seems to me that if your core business hinges on your servers being available and on-line, you should be a little less removed from that operation.