Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice

• piefood@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will never understand why businesses want to let someone else control their infrastructure. Putting your money-maker in someone else's hands is just telling them that it's OK to give you the squeeze later.

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because managers really like giving contracts to those giving a presentation in an exotic resort and have a great service agreement so all blame for mishaps can be shifted away from their career.

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    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also, at least in here, lease costs (like all as-a-service things) are considered to be flexible while own hardware and specially workforce are static costs. And no one wants to increase static costs, even if it’s clear as daylight that flexible cost only flexes upward over time unless the company suddenly shrinks by quite a lot.

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  • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We moved out entire stack to the cloud, knowing full well we’re gonna bring it back in the future. We hosted our apps on traditional servers and server maintenance was a nightmare, we didn’t have the capacity and our application uptime is critical to our operations, so we strategically moved everything to the cloud so we can not worry about the maintenance for a bit while we took the time to rebuild our infrastructure properly with load balancing and high availability, and refactored our applications, we’re now slowly moving things back.

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  • wampus@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In many cases, I’d say it’s because they aren’t IT or IT Security focused businesses. A pizza shop, clothing retailer, or whatnot, needs IT stuff to function, but that’s not the focus of their business. Hiring an IT team at IT worker rates is expensive, especially as a support/tertiary role for your business.

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Someone else controls your infra no matter what. Say you’ve got a data center, you run all your applications on site. Great, until your ISP or electrical or DNS provider or registrar fuck you.

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• Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whoever decides to trust Microsoft will always get burned. Amazon and Google not much better.

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  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This case is the result of government sanctions, not Microsoft arbitrarily doing shit.

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    • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You mean besides abandoning whole fields of research and selling out to the government routinely?

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      • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m down to criticize Microsoft on things they actually deserve to be criticized on. This scenario isn’t one of those, though.

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• MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep, i’ve seen this exact pattern at three diffrent companies - the cloud repatriation movement is gaining serious momentum as CFOs finally see the true long-term costs versus the initial promises.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The cloud is often more expensive though.

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