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Cloud computing in China is a total shit show: 1. Go with a foreign cloud provider which has horrible latency thanks to the Great Firewall, and could get perma
by desdiv 10y ago
Cloud computing in China is a total shit show:
1. Go with a foreign cloud provider which has horrible latency thanks to the Great Firewall, and could get permanently blocked any time at the whims of the government.
2. Go with one of the big Chinese tech companies (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent), where it's almost guaranteed that they will steal your idea/code/data, clone your product, and rely on their massive size and network effect to destroy you. They didn't get big through innovation like Western tech companies; they got big by stealing and government-backed monopoly.
3. Go with a smaller Chinese tech company that has reliability problems and could go belly up at any time.
- matthewrudy 10y agoWe use AWS.cn for our service. But found out last week that AWS doesn't actually have a license, and piggybacks on some third party provider in beijing. http://m.baidu.com/news?tn=bdbjbody&bjaid=392506&bjdomain=lanjingtmt& http://m.baidu.com/news?tn=bdbjbody&bjaid=392506&bjdomain=la...
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoI think all the western cloud providers work like this; e.g. Azure in China. It isn't really that they can't get a license, but getting a license requires a certain amount of exposure to Chinese law that many western companies can't take on.
- matthewrudy 10y agoI guess that's true. But it wasn't something we'd considered properly. Gives us more of a reason to move to a Chinese provider for our CN servers. (This is now simpler as we're standardizing on Kubernetes for deployments, so Kubernetes on AWS.cn vs Kubernetes on Aliyun should be equivalent)
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoThe idea is that the technology is constant at least. Also, tech support often goes along with it.