The outage affected thousands of organisations – and shows the danger of putting all of your data in one basket.
  • dan@upvote.au
    2·
    2 days ago

    They should say at least one thing that’s unique to the cloud, though.

    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 days ago

      there is no cloud, it is always someone else’s computer. the only difference is “it is successful buzzword”

      • dan@upvote.au
        2·
        2 days ago

        “cloud” still mostly means services like AWS and Google Cloud. People don’t refer to Hetzner dedicated servers as “cloud” for example.

        • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
          2·
          2 days ago

          That’s definitely dependent on the company. Every company I’ve worked for that has their own data centers refers to any service outside their direct hardware control as cloud infra. Co-lo is the only shared hosting model I’ve never seen considered cloud.

          The widespread conflation of IaaS/PaaS with cloud is due to AWS/ GCP/ Azure marketing. VPSes used to be considered cloud, prior to IaaS and PaaS existing, because cloud was anything that was not on-prem.