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Should a single cloud supplier be considered a single point of failure in the event of war?
by ToFab123 8y ago
Should a single cloud supplier be considered a single point of failure in the event of war?
- nickpsecurity 8y agoI think it's possibly a single, point of subversion by foreign intelligence.
- dylan604 8y agoUnless the war is between the cloud supplier and the gov't, I don't see this being an issue. The standard redundant physical location policies already in place should protect against a facility suddenly becoming catastrophically offline.
- ra1n85 8y agoPhysical redundancy doesn't do much if your infrastructure is controlled by software (deployment, monitoring, scaling, pipelines for updating dependent services) that isn't well controlled. GCE and AWS have both suffered widespread connectivity issues due to deployments. Adversaries don't need to blow up data centers, they just need to modify the code used to provision, monitor, and control them.