Re: But....
Fact is any business running anything critical to the business on other people's servers better have a contract guaranteeing they get back more than the down time costs (goodwill for example ain't cheap) or the people responsible are simply shirking their fiduciary duty to the company.
No, that's exactly the opposite of what you should be doing, you're looking to apportion blame after the fact. This is little use if your business has gone bust due to the downtime. Better to design systems that minimise the risk of this happening in the first place.
Using the cloud allows you to build complex systems with little upfront cost.
That's it.
This does mean that smaller companies can build an infrastructure that's distributed and resilient in a way that wasn't financially feasible 10-15 years ago; and larger companies can potentially significantly reduce their DR expenditure.
It doesn't mean it'll never fail or require administration or backup or all the other things you should be doing with an IT infrastructure. It just means you don't spend a boatload upfront on kit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
