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> Furthermore, managing your own server potentially leaves more room open for misconfigurations (including backups) and definitely won't get you past any inform
by windexh8er 5y ago
> Furthermore, managing your own server potentially leaves more room open for misconfigurations (including backups) and definitely won't get you past any information security questionnaire.
If you believe that cloud magically removes this as a hurdle then you surely should not be dumping your infrastructure into a cloud provider. Misconfigurations in cloud are real, happen often and are often times much harder to validate without 3rd party tools or spending a lot of time building tooling to extrapolate if your footprint is doing what you think it is.
- Nextgrid 5y agoMisconfigurations in the cloud are much more dangerous as well as you can quickly accumulate charges and there is no way to implement a spending cap. With bare-metal hardware the costs are typically fixed and agreed in advance.