alt Hacker NewsYep, a lot of non-technical leaders believe that 'cloud' is synonymous with 'DR strategy' or even 'backup'. "We won't have to worry about being offline if our server goes down if we move to the cloud!" Some of these people fundamentally don't understand what the cloud is, their assumption is cloud means easy button that solves all your infrastructure and uptime problems.
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BobbyTables2 • today at 2:25 AM
And for a time, it even seems true as long as the natural disasters that impact various customer offices happen to not impact that one particular data center…
pianopatrick • today at 3:43 AM
I mean, can't cloud kinda solve all of those if you just use the right things?
You are pointing the fingers at the wrong people. Cloud providers pushed this idea onto executives via their marketing and conferencing channels.
Not disimilar to how AI naratives are pushed on executives these last two years.