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Banks bid legacy tech farewell as they sail to the cloud – but now all that infrastructure is in hands of the big three

Tom 38

Until bits get magically transported from one CPU to the next, however you provide your services is at risk of having their connectivity removed, whether that's cloud or on-prem.

If your service is mission critical, you should have it in multiple regions and availability zones - each which has multiple independent power, cooling and backhaul and be physically separated - and design your applications and data storage around not relying on any one region/AZ being up.

"Cloud" is more than running your programs on other people's computers.

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