• Knusper@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    102
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Gotta love these kind of news. There’s always these hypothetical discussions of clouds being insecure and companies generally just ignore that, because clouds are theoretically, sometimes cheaper.

    And then every now and then, half the internet leaks out of one of these clouds and everyone’s like, holy crap, and then companies go back to generally just ignoring that, because clouds are theoretically, sometimes cheaper.

    • TheCee@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately nobody in charge has seen consequences for their decision to save a few theoretical nickels, so far. But then again, a lot of software/IT related stuff would look completely different, if anybody did.

      • Knusper@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, with the GDPR, you could theoretically get sued for using inappropriate technologies, but unless a proper expert committee officially declares Azure et al unsalvagable, you can always say, you thought you were using safe technologies.

    • sep@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I do not think anyone belive clouds are cheaper. For a stable workload probably 2x as expecive. Especially when you also count the new finops department you need to know what you are actually paying for in the cloud.

      What cloud do give is virtualy infinite capacity, infinite scale out performance, instant availabillity and scaleabillity up to a global presence, no up-front cost, no tear down cost, bragging rights, no long running contracts and api’s for EVERYTHING.

      Edit: I did see you write theoretically ;)

      • X3I@lemmy.x3i.tech
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        Let me add another important point: outsourcing responsibility. In case of a data breach, you have someone to sue and you don’t need a whole internal team to be up to date on the latest security topics. Instead, they just have to be able to manage the web interface (not saying that is easy, just less subject to changes)

        • Default@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          1 year ago

          Ding ding ding. It’s all about outsourcing accountability as much as possible. Always need a finger to point at if things go wrong.

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Given the average company I believe the cloud being more secure, of course they can shoot themselves d in the foot in the cloud as well but that wouldn’t be the cloud being insecure. The cheaper part… not sure if I would agree, it is more simple and easier to manage than your own physical hardware and all that entails, unless you require very little, that’s for sure.