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>What the fuck is going on. Is this sheer incompetence taking over the world
I'm a cloud engineer, the SSD thing is legit just a stupid ass thing for old eMMC and extremely chang drives. To the point of cloud stuff however;
Most companies during covid took their on prem setups and moved into Azure/AWS/GCP for offers going on at the time that would make anyone's hosted racks or Datacenters look like a waste of cash. Your average Rack 42u was about 15k/mo going for just the space alone, most companies can run their ENTIRE infrastructure for less than that. We are talking O365/Gmail for hosted email services, then running AD or whatever identity source you wanted for end users out in the wild, plus host your SQL/Apps/Dev/Prod/backups. Some big clients I know can host their entire customer +30k body and 400 employee setup for ~5k/mo when done right.
What happened was many people moved this way and only silo'd into one Cloud Datacenter being East US1 for what happened yesterday, without doing any sort of failover planning for if there was an outage at it. Some places before would simply host a cold off site and flip a switch with their Datacenter colo to move the IP be up back in ~30 minutes depending on the routing protocols used. Most people when they see "the cloud is cheap" don't want to pay for data replication or other things and increasing costs after they had the ability to during the anything goes COOF days now are stuck with accountants who don't want the number to move.