Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

[Brielle <bruns () 2mbit com>]

Or, when someone dies because their cell phone doesn’t work and can’t do a simple 911 call anymore when AWS has yet 
another outage for 2 days.

All those pesky side effects of removing certain functionality that was once handled locally…

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> On Jan 26, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
>
> 
> > For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of
> > direct operational control.
>
> 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. 
>
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:46 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 1/26/22 16:41, Randy Bush wrote:
> >
> > > s/de-risk/re-risk/
> > >
> > > it's just a different risk
> >
> > I should have finished that sentence with "de-risk their infrastructure 
> > spend", because the actual risk is in having to spend money upfront to 
> > build the network.
> >
> > For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of 
> > direct operational control.
> >
> > Mark <= who run way from a suggestion to run iBGP route reflectors in 
> > AWS :-).
> >
> > Mark.