Gareth Kitchen on Nostr: I can't say I was surprised by this announcement. There is a drumbeat, especially ...
I can't say I was surprised by this announcement. There is a drumbeat, especially from central Govt. of the efficiency gained by cloud based and AI innovation.
This approach demands this increasing centralisation of services reliant on infrastructure that is currently located beyond our shores but often with AWS.
However, if we are to build resilience into our own organisations and communities it's important that services are diverse, can stand independently, and only where the need arises, federate beyond our locality.
We are becoming far too reliant on the centralised services of modern American business conglomerates who often use AWS. It's not a wild guess to suggest it's becoming a single point of failure in our national infrastructure.
I've long advocated that we seek out and support alternatives ways of addressing IT service provision.
By way of example, I run my own social media and video conference services. All privacy preserving and completely ad-free and none of it dependent on AWS.
To my horror I discovered that our local constabulary has signed a £7m deal for a document management system with a Canadian company. Who knows where that data is going to be located or what the implications will be if 'the internet' goes down.
The point I'm making is that I think that services based on diverse infrastructure, and better still, hosted locally are infinitely more resilient.
This approach demands this increasing centralisation of services reliant on infrastructure that is currently located beyond our shores but often with AWS.
However, if we are to build resilience into our own organisations and communities it's important that services are diverse, can stand independently, and only where the need arises, federate beyond our locality.
We are becoming far too reliant on the centralised services of modern American business conglomerates who often use AWS. It's not a wild guess to suggest it's becoming a single point of failure in our national infrastructure.
I've long advocated that we seek out and support alternatives ways of addressing IT service provision.
By way of example, I run my own social media and video conference services. All privacy preserving and completely ad-free and none of it dependent on AWS.
To my horror I discovered that our local constabulary has signed a £7m deal for a document management system with a Canadian company. Who knows where that data is going to be located or what the implications will be if 'the internet' goes down.
The point I'm making is that I think that services based on diverse infrastructure, and better still, hosted locally are infinitely more resilient.