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the cloud is much more secure because your data is decentralized
- Every major cloud provider when advertising their services over on-prem soloutions.
* But only if you pay for the most redundant storage, which cost all the money.
"We don't need our own backups. The cloud takes care of everything."
People who don't understand what they are buying almost always find out the hard way.
Never thought I'd be a cheerleader for Iran against my own country. But please, Iran, keep making America better!
Anyone in IT who has ever been near a backup or had to do a DR exercise knows full well not to have a backup in the same geographic area as your primary workload. Usually it’s for natural disasters, but it very much applies to war too.
This is just as much, if not more, on the companies that didn’t have geographicly dispersed backups.
A not insignificant part of my first azure cert covered different redundancy options and pricing. If the data was that critical, the tenants would/should have mirrored it to another region.
I think pretty much every software dev has used AWS at some time, and when you set up new services, it specifically warns you to use multiple geographic areas for your services. It doesn't say "war" or something, only that it's good for redundancy, IIRC.
So anyway, yes, I follow instructions, but I'm always surprised that you have software people and systems admins who can't even follow basic instructions. I don't know what percentage of people it is, but it feels like over 50% who can't follow even the simplest instructions.
I'm not surprised at all. It costs more to use more regions, both due to literal cost and in time to set it up.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if a bombing on US territory was cheered if it was an AWS data center (or Meta, xAI, etc). Hell, Iran could probably even find US citizens for sabotage at this point if they just ask, lol.
War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.
Well good thing it isn't a war then
Speaking as a member of a company who has just recently realized that we can have products in regions other than us-east-1, this is not surprising. If UE1 went down the economy would collapse overnight
I've been working on Disaster Recovery for my company and the amount of sleep I'm losing on this is insane in general.
Our devs just write their own IaC stuff so like, they can provision their own databases and shit without us knowing with no backups or customer keys and stuff to back up properly.
It's incredibly hard to reign that behavior in once it's entrenched as well.
You basically gotta take away privileges from everyone and it becomes a huge fight if you don't have organizational support. Usually you have to wait for something to explode spectacularly for that to happen.
Fellow SRE here.
The number of times I've heard "we have replication" followed by "we've tested it...on paper" make me cry.
Trying to convince a CEO that the only way to know for sure that their backups work is to do an actual disaster test is harder than trying to convince my parents that I don't need to eat more.
Our devs just write their own IaC stuff so like, they can provision their own databases and shit without us knowing with no backups or customer keys and stuff to back up properly.
That'd give me nightmares too on top of the DR, hopefully at the minimum they can't spin up resources in anything but a dev/test environment.
Best of luck to you, governance is super important, if it makes you feel any better you're definitely not alone.
Do they have a Go Fund Me or something I can donate to or something to keep them rolling?
2+1 isn't this building and the neighboring building. No back up no compassion. (Kein Backup kein Mitleid)
Good. Fuck Amazon, sucks for the customers. Also what kind of company like this doesn't have backups?
Presumably, the kind that likes to cut corners and not do things properly, safe in the knowledge that they'll face no consequences. Or if they somehow do then the government will just bail them out anyway.
Someone needs to shine a laser at bezos' noggin for a better permanent loss.
So like... the opposite of a data breach, the headlines I am used to reading about "customer data"? Hmmm... Ok.
3,2,1 applies to cloud regions, so everyone who lost their data permanently deserved it.
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