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"The cloud", as I understand it, is the ubiquitous, cheap and near-instantaneous availability of computing power; as in minutes instead of hours or days for new
by rufo 15y ago
"The cloud", as I understand it, is the ubiquitous, cheap and near-instantaneous availability of computing power; as in minutes instead of hours or days for new servers.
"The cloud" is not (and never has been) a cure-all for reliability issues. It's just as easy to have single points of failure as any other hosting strategy, and is just as easy (or difficult) to plan for. Companies that have planned for high availability with multi-region or multi-provider strategies will continue to be available, regardless of whether or not they are using "the cloud".
- jpdoctor 15y ago> near-instantaneous availability That implies something about reliability. The downtime today is real data about that availability.
- rufo 15y agoThat's an issue with one service in one region offered by Amazon Web Services, not "the cloud" as a concept. Use this as an example of the reliability of EBS (or if you want to broaden the scope, Amazon Web Services) all you want, but this says nothing about "the cloud" as a concept.