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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/11/20 9:40 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/11/2020 8:52 AM, David Wade wrote:
>> ... 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....
> 
> I would guess so.
> 
> They wrote a web crawler with a software bug that caused an
> infinite recursion (it did not discard links to pages
> already processed).
> 
> With utility computing someone has to pay. Either the
> customer with the software bug pays or all customers pay
> a higher rate to cover such incidents. The first seems more
> fair to me.
> 

Keeping in  mind my recent comment about The Cloud being a bad idea,
how about this:
     “Software you don’t own in your infrastructure is a risk,”
      DeSantis said.

That's peter DeSantis of AWS.  :-)

bill