Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible
by Kalium on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:30PM
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Similarly, a lot of companies use systems that they believe could get the up and running on a different cloud vendor should that day come to pass. Until then, they don't maintain a full second or third environment.
This is equivalent to knowing you could get a hotel room or crash with a friend, instead of maintaining a whole second home yourself.
Yes. I have some friends and family members who live anywhere between 1 mile and 10,000 miles away, in both same country and other countries, that I can turn to provide me with food and shelter if my home is no longer available for some reason.
Regardless of them, I can take shelter short term in a hotel or other rental facility, as I have sufficient savings that I'll continue to be warm and fed.
The comparison doesn't hold up. A business cannot just reform overnight if critical dependencies disappear. A person can.