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> No one is forced to buy this stuff. Actually, many companies are de facto forced to do that, for various reasons.
by benterix 1y ago
> No one is forced to buy this stuff.
Actually, many companies are de facto forced to do that, for various reasons.
- philipallstar 1y agoHow so?
- jacquesm 1y agoCertification, for one. Governments will mandate 'x, y and/or z' and only the big providers are able to deliver.
- mlrtime 1y agoThat is not the same as mandating AWS, it just means certain levels of redundancy. There are no requirements to be in the cloud.
- jacquesm 1y agoNo, that's not what it means. It means that in order to be certified you have to use providers that in turn are certified or you will have to prove that you have all of your ducks in a row and that goes way beyond certain levels of redundancy, to the point that most companies just give up and use a cloud solution because they have enough headaches just getting their internal processes aligned with various certification requirements. Medical, banking, insurance to name just a couple are heavily regulated and to suggest that it 'just means certain levels of redundancy' is a very uninformed take.
- philipallstar 1y agoIt is definitely not true that only big companies can do this. It is true that every regulation added adds to the power of big companies, which explains some regulation, but it is definitely possible to do a lot of things yourself and evidence that you've done it. What's more likely for medical at least is that if you make your own app, that your customers will want to install it into their AWS/Azure instance, and so you have to support them.
- 63stack 1y agoSecurity/compliance theater for one
- philipallstar 1y agoThat's not a company being forced to, though?
- aembleton 1y agoIt is if they want to win contracts
- philipallstar 1y agoI don't think that's true. I think a company can choose to outsource that stuff to a cloud provider or not, but they can still choose.