Amazon isn’t eating all of its own cloud dog food
August 6, 2015
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
The Wall Street Journal today takes a critical eye toward IaaS cloud providers like Amazon and Google who admit they are hosting some of their companies most sensitive workloads in private servers and not in their much-touted public cloud platforms. Executives with cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services have for years been attempting to make the case that their cloud platforms are ready for any and all workloads. They trot out customers at their conferences who have closed their last data centers. But that’s not the norm. While many organizations have warmed to the idea of using the public cloud, there’s still a hesitancy to lift and shift all workloads into the cloud.
Even the teams that run the Amazon.com ecommerce site and some of Google’s most valuable applications feel the same way. The WSJ spoke with a former Amazon executive who said that back-end databases with confidential data on them do not run in AWS’s cloud. An AWS spokesperson told the WSJ that “the vast majority of Amazon.com runs in AWS.”…
But not everything. (In the tech sector, a company using its own products and services is referred to as eating your own dog food.)…
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