{"id":38,"date":"2008-08-05T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webadminblog.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-08-06T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:22:25","slug":"cloud-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/05\/cloud-headaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Headaches?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The industry is abuzz with people who are freaked out about the outages that Amazon and other cloud vendors have had.\u00a0 “Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers<\/a>,” says InformationWeek!<\/span><\/p>\n

This is because people are going into cloud computing with retardedly high expectations.\u00a0 This year at Velocity, Interop, etc. I’ve seen people just totally in love with cloud computing – Amazon’s specifically but in general as well.\u00a0 And it’s a good concept for certain applications.\u00a0 However, it is a computing system just like every other computing system devised previously by man.\u00a0 And it has, and will have, problems.<\/p>\n

Whether you are using in house systems, or a SaaS vendor, or building “in the cloud,” you have the same general concerns.\u00a0 Am I monitoring my systems?\u00a0 What is my SLA?\u00a0 What is my recourse if my system is not hitting it?\u00a0 What’s my DR plan?<\/p>\n

Cloud computing is also being called “PaaS,” or Platform as a Service.\u00a0 It’s a special case of SaaS.\u00a0 And if you’re a company relying on it, when you contract with a SaaS vendor you get SLAs established and figure out what the remedy is if they breach it.\u00a0 If you are going into a relationship where you are just paying money for a cloud VM, storage, etc. and there is no enforceable SLA in the relationship, then you need to build the risk of likely and unremediable outages into your business plan.<\/p>\n

I hate to break it to you, but the IT people working at Amazon, Google, etc. are not all that smarter than the IT people working with you.\u00a0 So an unjustified faith in a SaaS or cloud vendor – “Oh, it’s Amazon, I’m sure they’ll never have an outage of any sort – their entire system or localized to my part – and if they do I’m sure the $100\/month I’m paying them will cause them to give a damn about me” – is unreasonable on its face.<\/p>\n

Clouds and cloud vendors are a good innovation.\u00a0 But they’re like every other computing innovation and vendor selling it to you.\u00a0 They’ll have bugs and failures.\u00a0 But treating them differently is a failure on your part, not theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The industry is abuzz with people who are freaked out about the outages that Amazon and other cloud vendors have had.\u00a0 “Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers,” says InformationWeek! This is because people are going into cloud computing with retardedly high expectations.\u00a0 This year at Velocity, Interop, etc. I’ve seen people just totally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[39,108,629],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elastic-compute-cloud","tag-cloud","tag-paas","tag-saas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfI0c-C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webadminblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}