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Should we infer zero off-cloud contingency plans, then?

• vishnugupta 5y ago
  Depends on factors such as business size, product life cycle stage etc., For a typical startup trying to figure out PMF and launch an MVP or figure out customer retention I'd be really surprised if off-cloud contingency is even on top-50 priority list. But for someone with a proven business model with a good revenue stream cloud dependency or vendor lock-in or single-vendor-point of failure does indeed become an action item to be worked upon. Or when a regulator requires setting up a DR site which they did for us back in 2015. We had no option but to set it up in a data-centre. Or let's say someone like Mighty (1) whose product is sort of competitor to AWS's (2). They wouldn't want to go anywhere near AWS or any cloud for that matter. And last I heard they were indeed ordering their own physical server machines. There are valid reasons to look for either hybrid or purely on-prem solutions as I listed a few above. But please don't forward "what if cost doubles" type of reasoning. All that said, I'd hypothesise not going full on cloud is an exception for a typical startup now a days. (1) https://www.mightyapp.com https://www.mightyapp.com (2) https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/ https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/