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This will change over the next decade. James is correct, the costs are simply dropping too fast. The existing constituencies like IT departments with existing d
by sseveran 12y ago
This will change over the next decade. James is correct, the costs are simply dropping too fast. The existing constituencies like IT departments with existing data centers will increasingly have a hard time justifying their budgets. This will become more true as new applications that are designed for a cloud environment are written. The only applications I have seen that are really cheaper are 100% CPU bound workloads and there aren't very many of those in real life.
- keypusher 12y agoI have a hard time seeing the military and intelligence communities ever putting their data and computing up on Amazon. DMV, Social Security, and police records? Presidential archives? What about concerns such as regulatory compliance? Patient records from hospitals that must comply with HIPAA, and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulation for financial records? Strategy and design documents from multinational corporations? I don't deny that data and compute will continue to move to the cloud over the next decade, but there are some things which may never make that transition.
- sseveran 12y agoAWS is HIPAA compliant (http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/). The CIA selected AWS for a large ($600MM) buildout. Strategy and design documents are already in the cloud organically via OneDrive, DropBox and Google Drive. NASDAQ does sell Sarbox compliance as a key feature of its cloud product but I have a hard time seeing how in the long run that will really differentiate. The reality is that AWS is likely not any less secure than legacy IT infrastructure. It also provides great primitives for writing more secure applications.