“Cloud” is marketing gibberish for “The hosted managed services you rejected in the 1990’s because we wouldn’t provide automatic failures and backups are rebranded as the “cloud” as we now include redundancy and backups.”
The “cloud” moniker came from Visio diagrams that depicted the Internet as a cloud. It really is a retarded concept.
The cloud, after. From ABNB
We were a generation too busy staring at glittering pleasure screens even to reproduce, until the moment that the fantasy windows winked to black and reality crashed down. A great truth was learned, too late: pixels, bytes, and digits do not endure when the networks driving them explode in clouds of zeros and ones and disappear forever.
CT, you hit the nail right on the head regarding reliablility factors and cloud services. As I am always telling clients, "How solid is a cloud"?
A company I contract for had subcontracted cloud services to provide terminal services and DB hosts for its customers, and it had an outage in January that didn't 'fail over', as the cognescenti like to say. Their customers, who could not afford so much as five minutes of downtime, suffered close to a week. Of course, all that hate and discontent trickled down very quickly, and all parties involved took a fierce kick right between the goalposts. As for me, I was always well out of blast range.
I hate it when I'm right. And on matters such as this, I find myself right almost daily. It's not rocket science; not really.