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I would imagine this should be a primary concern for a lot of companies operating in Google, Microsofts, and Amazon's cloud. You are dealing with companies tha
by spaginal 8y ago
I would imagine this should be a primary concern for a lot of companies operating in Google, Microsofts, and Amazon's cloud.
You are dealing with companies that have the power and money to become your main competitor overnight, and you don't know what kind of business intelligence they are gaining from you being on their hardware, and if there is espionage going on with your software and service. How honest are they being?
Judging by the size, scope, behaviors, and attitudes of the companies, I think it's turning into a risk to host on their platforms if you work in a space they may be interested into getting into.
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- vemv 8y agoYou don't need any espionage to implement and release the new Amazon Kafka product. Kafka is an open source package after all. Profiting from any marginal gain from such espionage would be deterred by the huge reputational risk for AWS, were they caught.
- hueving 8y agoYou do need espionage to know how many of your customers are using Kafka on their EC2 instances to make that product decision though.
- rdiddly 8y agoMy thoughts exactly. Also makes those who were a bit cloud-skeptical look a little less like the Luddites they were portrayed as. And I note that out of the handful of companies... that I know well enough to comment on that have a culture where protecting their intellectual property is important that wanted "cloud" that could afford to set up their own on-premises cloud ...all of them did so.