Re:Avoid Vendor Lock-In Risk with Multi-Cloud Deployments
by rconti on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:23PM
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You should pluralize that 'colo' then.
I've been through datacenter power outages, refusal to renew, and difficulty in getting circuits in a timely manner in multiple Tier 4 datacenters.
Self-hosting is only as good as your planning, strategy, and execution, which is much the same as the cloud world. You're probably safer running a single EC2 instance than running a single dedicated server in some random colo, but certainly running your own geographically distributed infrastructure is likely better than relying on a single AWS availability zone (for example).
However, it's a great idea to open up peoples' eyes to the idea of how being on a major cloudy provider can make you collateral damage of an attack that never would have targeted you if you were in DIY mode.
I've been through datacenter power outages, refusal to renew, and difficulty in getting circuits in a timely manner in multiple Tier 4 datacenters.
Self-hosting is only as good as your planning, strategy, and execution, which is much the same as the cloud world. You're probably safer running a single EC2 instance than running a single dedicated server in some random colo, but certainly running your own geographically distributed infrastructure is likely better than relying on a single AWS availability zone (for example).
However, it's a great idea to open up peoples' eyes to the idea of how being on a major cloudy provider can make you collateral damage of an attack that never would have targeted you if you were in DIY mode.