Never had been.
You just now figured this out?
There’s always been a risk, but now that risk is actually playing out. It’s a bit smug to pretend that nothing has changed.
Not to mention that Bert Hubert has been beating this drum for a long time. However, he also sees that there is more momentum now to actually affect change, which involves latching onto changing circumstances.
Pretending that things are the same as ever only leads to a defeatist attitude, where people conclude that apparently it’s worked so far, might as well continue doing it.
So China was right in not relying on US big tech
Which idiot is responsible for the “no longer”?
Well clearly people thought it was previously.
America and Europe have been supposedly allied since WW2. That’s “no longer” the case, now more obvious than ever before.
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Protections and laws don’t stop anything. The NSA, CIA, FBI and whatever other three letter agency will still have their fingers deep into any cloud, any software and any hardware from the US.
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AWS and Azure kind of kneecapped all the other cloud providers
What the hell is a government doing using someone else’s cloud? I have a small business and I bought a Synology NAS years ago. How is it possible that a government does not have its own servers?
Yeah, that just doesn’t scale. Don’t get me wrong, what you do works and is good, but you (probably) don’t have an off site backup or 100TB of customer data, that is needed in 17 countries accessed by over 15.000 employees.
I’m not saying, that you need a public cloud provider for that, there are other companies, that do these kinds of things, but it is more comfortable and as with SAP no manager has ever been fired for proposing using Microsoft.
It’s not like we don’t have datacenters and server providers in the eu. We have hetzner, OVH and Aruba (ew)
Yes, but there are even more smaller companies doing that and in the past a lot of companies did that themselves (if big enough) but “the cloud”
isseems just so convenient, that they don’t want that anymore.
Buying service level agreements on rented hardware is easier and cheaper (you don’t have to pay your own IT). Security and data protection, pfft nobody needs or wants that.
you don’t have to post your own IT
Now you’re paying for devops…
Not necessarily. Standard services like chat and mail and office usually come in standard packages. You do need an admin for standard services too but one admin can easily take care of dozens of users across dozens of services. The devops team is something you only need if you’re running custom cloud applications which I would imagine a lot of companies don’t do at all.
“Yes, but that’s another departments cost. Or some lobbyists told me this is cheaper. Anyway, we’re locked into the whole thing by now, doesn’t matter anymore.”
What the hell is a government doing using someone else’s cloud?
Fucking up everything. Thar’s what governments do for a living,
As a cloud professional in the US he is 100% right. They should be worried.
Care to elaborate?
Without too much detail, all heads of US cloud providers sat behind trump at the inauguration.
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The cloud is a tool of oppression in the wrong hands, and it is in the wrong hands.
Let the sun shine in.
