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Security, Compliance, and Geographic footprint. If you're a large multinational, you basically face the same threats as Google/AWS/MSFT but there's no way you
by rrdharan 4y ago
Security, Compliance, and Geographic footprint.
If you're a large multinational, you basically face the same threats as Google/AWS/MSFT but there's no way you can hire, train and keep as good a production security team as them (well maybe better than Azure, but I digress).
You can't afford the upfront contractual / capital costs to maintain datacenters in every region.
And finally you can't afford the armies of lawyers and compliance engineering teams to try and reason about your data residency and things like GDPR and CCPA.
In other words, you're mostly paying for production security / privacy incident response, compliance (lawyers) and datacenters.