Paul B. Henson wrote:
On 11/18/2020 12:47 PM, John C. Pfeifer wrote:
It mirrors a general push to have the services which reply on LDAP to also be in the cloud.
The cloud is magic, right ;)? At least, it magically assists in manager CYA when stuff breaks 8-/, blame it on Amazon…
I guess one advantage is that if/when we need more resources to support demand, it is just a question of money rather than acquiring physical resources, finding rack space, etc. I don’t know that it actually any cheaper, but it is more immediate.
Once upon a time the whole cloud migration was pushed as a cost savings measure. Over time, it's become clear it's quite the opposite. I think the current claim to fame is "reliability and redundancy", along with "supernatural scaling ability".
IMHO, the "cloud" is just somebody else's physical data center you have minimal control over <sigh>. If I had a nickel for every time my manager told me "it's less than ideal, but we could [...]" in regards to our cloud migration I could retire and stop having to hear him say it ;).
The cloud sort of made sense if you were entirely compute bound, and just wanted to spin up a few more CPUs to handle a dynamic spike in load. It has never made sense for database services, where adding CPUs won't help if you're getting bottlenecked by storage access. You can't just spin up a few more terabytes of pre-populated disk, it takes non-trivial time to duplicate a DB (if your system will even function correctly using separate complete copies of the DB), or to re-shard the DB if your system supports sharding.