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Re:Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of... by beaunative on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:12PM (#22549963)
Unfortunately you can't just spin supplies up as if they are in AWS EC2 zone. It takes years to built if they weren't already there. The more apprioriate comparison would be to have a home-hosted server cluster in addition to EC2 cluster which most companies simply don't do. It's just too expensive.
Re:Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of... by hef19898 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:20PM (#22550044)
Sure, if companies start thinking about their supplier base just now, well that's just too late. I can only comment on physical supply chains, so. But even there building up suppliers takes time and money. Personally, I would love to see the risk of single sources be valued higher in the equations. One can dream, right?

Edit: Now I got the cluster thing. I meant cluster in the sense of risk, meaning you have a single point of failure and high degree of risk concentration. But your point is really interesting, I never thought about these aspects of cloud computing.