[LINK] The Naivete of Cloud-Using Organisations

[David]

On Friday, 13 December 2024 7:52:13 AM AEDT Roger Clarke wrote:
>> Organisations that choose to be dependent on remote services could be expected to have fallback arrangements designed, trialled and at the ready. These might take the form of alternative cloud suppliers.

And those organisations should also take care to ensure there's no common factor in their choice of suppliers.  It could be embarrassing if, having paid lots to keep the alternative going for years on end, it turned out that both cloud suppliers failed because they shared the same comms outage, database bug, malware intrusion, political upheaval, or whatever.  And that's a level of detail which is almost impossible to identify.

I don't think there's any answer to that conundrum, even in principle.  Organisational size & complexity is the issue.  The bigger they are, the harder they fall.  So to speak...

_David Lochrin_