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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/11/2020 12:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.  :-)

Said in the context of them writing their own firmware
for their UPS'es.

That is not an approach I will recommend as
a general approach for everyone.

But Amazon overall got over 1 million employees and
estimates of AWS employees are in the 25000-40000 range.

Some things may make sense for a company that size.

Arne