[Info-vax] OT: Cloud Computing - How it can go wrong in a very expensive way.

[David Wade]

Many companies seem to rely on not paying bills to "improve cash flow". 
When I worked in HP they removed all the order pads in February and 
March and you could not order anything.

This was stupid. How on earth were you supposed to finish a job if you 
needed for example a box of floppy disks, or some blank CDs. Insane....

... of course if you move your data to the cloud you only own it if you 
pay the bill, so that "trick" does not work. When I worked for a local 
council we often had home workers unable to work because some one had 
decided not to pay their phone bills.....

... and if you have a BIG system and something goes wrong you may end up 
with a big bill...

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/google_cloud_over_run/

.. these guys were lucky. I think usually you would have to pay....

Dave