JP Vossen on 5 Feb 2018 12:44:04 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Topic for North (cloud stuff)


On 02/05/2018 02:33 PM, Andy Wojnarek wrote:
The lack of the console has always puzzled me – but they really make a lot of effort into making sure that you’re managing your business/infrastructure the ‘cloud way.’ Their whole shtick (and reflected in their certs) is that EC2 should not be treated a colo where you lift-and-shift workloads and forget about them. They express that if you do everything the ‘cloud way’, and utilize their services, and architect correctly – you reduce the amount of people and time you spend on your infrastructure and more time on your business.

I don't know much about cloud stuff in general or AWS in particular, but it seems like there are 2 really high-level ways to use it/them.


There's a saying that "there is no such thing as the cloud, there is only someone else's data center." And that's the first one, you are just renting VMs, and lots of infrastructure and management around them, in someone else's data center.

There are arguments that's a bad idea, for example:

http://www.backupcentral.com/addressing-spectre-meltdown-in-your-backup-system/ (emphasis his) [1] ...taking a product designed for physical nodes in a datacenter and installing it in VMs in the cloud is a perfect example of how *not* to use the cloud.


The other way is to simply assemble "cloud" services into the thing you need, taking advantage of the scale and resiliency of the service and not simply running your own nodes someone else's data center. The example of that which comes to mind is Troy Hunt's https://haveibeenpwned.com/ site, which is, I'm pretty sure, built in Azure without any "nodes" at all. He'd detailed a lot about how that all works in his blog, here are 2 at least somewhat relevant posts but there are others I don't have time to search for right now: * https://www.troyhunt.com/microsoft-flow-azure-storage-webjobs-outlook-email/ * https://www.troyhunt.com/one-million-subscribers-later-heres-the-state-of-have-i-been-pwned/


I'll repeat that I don't know much about cloud stuff, so maybe I'm all wrong, but this is at least a place to start. And probably real life is some mix of both of those anyway.


So, fodder for discussion,
JP

[1] Backup Central is an interesting site by the guy who wrote the O'Reilly Backup book (which is very good). He recently went to work for a cloud backup provider, so he's now somewhat more inclined to look at the cloud perspective. But it's an interesting quote.

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