Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for a year or more in advance on a certain level of spend. Th...
There are also many organizations that wish they has some local backups after their cloud service providers lost all their data.
Lesson to learn: Backup properly with offline storage. Tape in a safe, maybe even off-site, etc.
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Yeah ok well when you get ransomware’d you’re going to wish you had Cloud backups.
Ask me how I know
How do you know?
An earwig told me
There are also many organizations that wish they has some local backups after their cloud service providers lost all their data. Lesson to learn: Backup properly with offline storage. Tape in a safe, maybe even off-site, etc.
Almost like a responsible modern day approach is multifaceted
So, what you’re saying is that, regardless of where you run your workloads, you should still follow the 3-2-1 rule?
3 - copies of the data. 2 - different media. 1 - offsite.
It’s funny how cloud doesn’t really change the basics of good systems administration.