Cloud-hosted infrastructure just doesn't work reliably. Too many points of failure along the way.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Tinka" <mark@tinka.africa> To: "Tom Beecher" <beec...@beecher.cc> Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:11:56 AM Subject: Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile? On 1/26/22 17:10, Tom Beecher wrote: > > Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when > the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to > anticipate because it's all black box. > > Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 > months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control. I don't disagree. What this does, though, is democratize access into the industry. For a simple business model that is serving a small community with a handful of eyeballs, not trying to grow forever but put food on the table, it's somewhere to start. Mark.
