Re:Cloud Firewalls
by majewsky on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:48PM
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Well, for starters, all customers that are not in us-east. Such as US west coast, Europe or Asia.
Besides latency, data protection issues also become a problem when you cross borders. My employer's (SAP) cloud platform advertises as a unique selling point that they have data centers in a wide variety of locations, so that a customer's data never has to leave their jurisdiction (which is important e.g. for government and its contractors).
And that's before we get to high-availability setups. Remember how AWS us-east was down just a few months ago?
Besides latency, data protection issues also become a problem when you cross borders. My employer's (SAP) cloud platform advertises as a unique selling point that they have data centers in a wide variety of locations, so that a customer's data never has to leave their jurisdiction (which is important e.g. for government and its contractors).
And that's before we get to high-availability setups. Remember how AWS us-east was down just a few months ago?