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Non-technical owners making faulty assumptions is not the fault of "Cloud" providers. It's probably common (I faced it myself personally, in a non-cloud situati
by pavs 8y ago
Non-technical owners making faulty assumptions is not the fault of "Cloud" providers. It's probably common (I faced it myself personally, in a non-cloud situation), but there is nothing the providers can do about unprepared users.
- jacquesm 8y ago> but there is nothing the providers can do about unprepared users. That's true, but they can do something to avoid making things worse, see the linked article.
- pavs 8y agoWhile true. I was specifically referring to this part: > What if the card holder is on leave and is unreachable for three days? We would have lost everything — years of work — millions of dollars in lost revenue. The comment suggests they are using personal GCP account instead of enterprise account. Millions of dollars worth of work + imply no backup + non-enterprise account (but expecting enterprise support) + not having multiple forms of payment available. Combining all these together, it seems like all sorts of things are going wrong here. I have never used GCP (or any of the big three cloud providers), so I don't know how they are in general, but in this specific case there seems to be faulty planning on the user end.
- jacquesm 8y agoAgreed, that wasn't smart. But, to their defense, this is how these things start out, small enough to be useful, and by the time they get business critical nobody realizes the silly credit card is all that stands between them and unemployment.