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People seem to have this misconception that "cloud computing" is some kind of magic bullet that guarantees 100% durability. News flash, your data is still being
by lopkeny12ko 2y ago
People seem to have this misconception that "cloud computing" is some kind of magic bullet that guarantees 100% durability. News flash, your data is still being stored on physical hard drives, in some data center. If the building burns down in a fire, of course your data will be gone, the hard drives are hosed, it's not magic. You really have no one to be mad at other than yourself...
- mardifoufs 2y agoMost of the "big" cloud providers aren't as negligent as OVH though. That entire datacenter was just one blunder after the other (wood structures, barely functional fire suppression, no proper power shut down, insane replication strategy that caused most of the replicas to burn in the very same fire in the same building...)
- JoshTriplett 2y ago> If the building burns down in a fire, of course your data will be gone From https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/DataDurability.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/DataDu... : > S3 Standard, [...] redundantly store objects on multiple devices across a minimum of three Availability Zones in an AWS Region. An Availability Zone is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. Availability Zones are physically separated by a meaningful distance, many kilometers, from any other Availability Zone, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.