This paragraph concerns me. One of the founding principles of the early Internet design was decentralization – by design, a single fault would not be able to take out everything. In a way, today’s reliance on large cloud providers removes the benefits of decentralization; we rely on the scalability, cost effectiveness, and flexibility of today’s SaaS and Cloud offerings yet we are potentially putting all of our eggs into one basket. This same statement applies to CDNs, as seen with the recent Akamai outage from this past summer. This was one of the drawbacks we experienced when our GM subsidiary (and all GM subsidiaries eventually) combined into EDS data centers. Charlotte was where ours was located. If the mainframe went down in Charlotte, multiple GM subsidiaries were screwed. Costing GM tens of millions in highly paid union labor twiddling their thumbs. If an ETSY business owner selling crocheted scarves has a 4 hour outage, it’s probably not that bad. If an auto plant, bank or brokerage, health care provider, insurance company, or airline is down for 4 hours, it could be disastrous. Clouds aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, December 10, 2021, 8:00 PM, Mark Regan <[email protected]> wrote: Since this topic is still somewhat active, I thought I'd forward this link. https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/aws-outage-analysis-dec-7-2021 Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR, EN80tg CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1979 active; 1979-1991, reserves; including two years with the Ohio Air National Guard) Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017 (z/OS Network Software Consultant) Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-t-regan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
