As the saying goes there is no cloud, just someone else’s computer. Simplistic as it is, the saying captures a universally accepted reality: app data is better off hosted elsewhere living on someone else’s hardware (I’m looking at you GCP and AWS). The issue with this cloud-first sentiment is that it relegates the cloud as a panacea. Sure, giving control to the cloud frees us from the burden of bootstrapping infrastructure and managing complex ops, but it comes with its own set of tradeoffs. Chief among them? The total loss of control over our own data. Not to mention the added reliance on third-party uptime (looking right at you us-east-1).
  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I wonder if anyone has built a system that automatically load balances between multiple CDN providers and which can automatically temporarily drop a provider that is having issues. That would mitigate the issue of depending on one provider which can go down at any time.