Or, when someone dies because their cell phone doesn’t work and can’t do a simple 911 call anymore when AWS has yet another outage for 2 days.
All those pesky side effects of removing certain functionality that was once handled locally… Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 26, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: > > >> For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of >> direct operational control. > > Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic > Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate because it's > all black box. > > Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 months of > opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control. > >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:46 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: >> >> >> On 1/26/22 16:41, Randy Bush wrote: >> >> > s/de-risk/re-risk/ >> > >> > it's just a different risk >> >> I should have finished that sentence with "de-risk their infrastructure >> spend", because the actual risk is in having to spend money upfront to >> build the network. >> >> For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of >> direct operational control. >> >> Mark <= who run way from a suggestion to run iBGP route reflectors in >> AWS :-). >> >> Mark.
