brisk@aussie.zone to Technology@beehaw.org · 17 hours agoAn Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to changetheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down12
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkAn Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to changetheconversation.combrisk@aussie.zone to Technology@beehaw.org · 17 hours agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-213 hours agoThey should say at least one thing that’s unique to the cloud, though.
minus-square14th_cylon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 hours agothere is no cloud, it is always someone else’s computer. the only difference is “it is successful buzzword”
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours ago“cloud” still mostly means services like AWS and Google Cloud. People don’t refer to Hetzner dedicated servers as “cloud” for example.
minus-square14th_cylon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoHence the buzzword part of my comment
They should say at least one thing that’s unique to the cloud, though.
there is no cloud, it is always someone else’s computer. the only difference is “it is successful buzzword”
“cloud” still mostly means services like AWS and Google Cloud. People don’t refer to Hetzner dedicated servers as “cloud” for example.
Hence the buzzword part of my comment