Never had been.
You just now figured this out?
The cloud is a tool of oppression in the wrong hands, and it is in the wrong hands.
Let the sun shine in.
What the hell is a government doing using someone else’s cloud? I have a small business and I bought a Synology NAS years ago. How is it possible that a government does not have its own servers?
Yeah, that just doesn’t scale. Don’t get me wrong, what you do works and is good, but you (probably) don’t have an off site backup or 100TB of customer data, that is needed in 17 countries accessed by over 15.000 employees.
I’m not saying, that you need a public cloud provider for that, there are other companies, that do these kinds of things, but it is more comfortable and as with SAP no manager has ever been fired for proposing using Microsoft.
Buying service level agreements on rented hardware is easier and cheaper (you don’t have to pay your own IT). Security and data protection, pfft nobody needs or wants that.
you don’t have to post your own IT
Now you’re paying for devops…
“Yes, but that’s another departments cost. Or some lobbyists told me this is cheaper. Anyway, we’re locked into the whole thing by now, doesn’t matter anymore.”
As a cloud professional in the US he is 100% right. They should be worried.
Care to elaborate?
Without too much detail, all heads of US cloud providers sat behind trump at the inauguration.
Which idiot is responsible for the “no longer”?
America and Europe have been supposedly allied since WW2. That’s “no longer” the case, now more obvious than ever before.
Well clearly people thought it was previously.
AWS and Azure kind of kneecapped all the other cloud providers
Tried to explain that to the higher ups in my org for months.
They introduced some proxy/VPN that pipes all of our traffic through a service that is not only breaking SSL, but also owned by a US corporation.
That’s enough red flags to make Mao blush, but nobody saw any problem in it…
