How often is your cloud down

[Gnome]

Yes silly title, but some pretty interesting stats:

https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-azure
https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-aws
https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-google
https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-rackspace
https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-digitalocean

Pretty impressed with Amazon, their cloud is, what like 5 times the size of all cloud leaders put together
It is hard to get to that size and still keep it running at the same time.

 

[snowwolf]

Quite interesting. Thanks!

I use Azure, AWS and Google quite a bit and it's always helpful to have this info at hand.

 

[Ipwn 4]

Nice to know, would love to see something like this for the local "cloud" providers...
We have guys here who manager more downtime in a few weeks then the big boys abroad combined in a year.

 

[Thor]

Nice to know, would love to see something like this for the local "cloud" providers...
We have guys here who manager more downtime in a few weeks then the big boys abroad combined in a year.

Aftihoax comes to mind

 

[Ipwn 4]

Aftihoax comes to mind

There is quite a few, everyone is labelling their sub par VPS solutions as cloud

 

[lul]

A local Cloud host? haha... should be nothing short of a complete joke.

Don't store personal files there. I wouldn't be surprised if the people at the local "cloud" host takes a peek into your account from time to time.

Also, you have no protection locally, especially when it comes to privacy.

I'd rather have the NSA snoop my files, than have a clown of a local host company having complete access to my account.

 

[Thor]

A local Cloud host? haha... should be nothing short of a complete joke.

Don't store personal files there. I wouldn't be surprised if the people at the local "cloud" host takes a peek into your account from time to time.

Also, you have no protection locally, especially when it comes to privacy.

I'd rather have the NSA snoop my files, than have a clown of a local host company having complete access to my account.

Do suspect this because local cloud companies like Afrihost is small and therefore might get away with looking at your naked pictures and bigger companies like Amazon will have stricter policies ?

Just want to make sure that is the case and not something else I'm unaware of?

 

[Gnome]

I'd rather have the NSA snoop my files, than have a clown of a local host company having complete access to my account.

If you use the right cloud company (one of those mentioned above), you may even end up using the cloud the NSA uses

There is really only 1 place where I would say I'm concerned of privacy in cloud computing and that is with Compute.

The bare metal/Dom0/whatever you want to call can get access to your virtual machine memory and therein lies the real concerns.

Storage however is pretty simple actually. Hell most of the S3 clones out there support client side encryption. In every other situation I can't really see how they could get access to your data if you took the right kind of precautions.

And to add to your point:
With small local startups you need to be concerned about things like your virtual machine not being provision by a computer.

Large cloud companies are pretty close to 100% automated. Everything is done with tooling. It is simply impossible with the numbers they deal with to do anything by hand. And with privacy being as important as it is, you're unlikely to find a large company that give their employees free reign to access customer data. The problem is not so much the employee as the fear of the employee's access method being hacked. A single security scandal is something no cloud company will survive. Ever. May as well close your doors.

 

[Ipwn 4]

A local Cloud host? haha... should be nothing short of a complete joke.

Don't store personal files there. I wouldn't be surprised if the people at the local "cloud" host takes a peek into your account from time to time.

Also, you have no protection locally, especially when it comes to privacy.

I'd rather have the NSA snoop my files, than have a clown of a local host company having complete access to my account.

uh huh, you clearly have never dealt with some of the "big boys" locally. Loads and loads of companies cannot host their data abroad due to compliance and therefore end up using local providers/their own DC's. Either way, privacy is more then possible...

if you are looking for somewhere to stash your super private porn collection on the cheap however you might be better off with an international company.

 

[DRou]

Is azure not also very costly if you have process-intensive website?

 

[Ipwn 4]

Is azure not also very costly if you have process-intensive website?

Yeah azure doesnt allways make sense and DIY cloud is generally much ceaper, if your website however generates enough income to make it worth it then its a different story.