“I work in IT and I was disappointed in the AWS episode. It’s clear that you’re not familiar with how clouds work - I wouldn’t expect you to be - and it leads to some weak arguments. First, the section about security breaches. All clouds, not just AWS, have a shared responsibility model for cybersecurity that lays out what Amazon is responsible for securing and what the AWS customer is responsible for securing. For the breaches you listed, it sounded like the causes were all the customer’s responsibility, aka all the software companies using AWS (including Amazon itself at times). For example, the database that wasn’t secured properly is totally the customer’s responsibility. Security of government data is a way more nuanced conversation than the example breaches you provided.
Second, you don’t acknowledge that if governments aren’t using the cloud, they build the infrastructure themselves. The innovative part of AWS is running infrastructure at an enormous scale to make it cheap. Companies are still capable of running their own infrastructure, it’s just way more expensive. Moving to the cloud is fiscally responsible. Regarding the AWS outage, it was definitely disruptive, but companies would probably have more outages if they ran their own infrastructure.”
Datorum X via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/19/22