[andrewstuart]

Unfortunate turn of events.

I find it really hard to have empathy for serious businesses who don’t have backups and are dependent on a single cloud.

Like for example if you are all in on AWS and do all your backups of your AWS systems to AWS then lose your account. Meh… your fault.

If you run a business then you have an absolute obligation to be able to instantly bring your business back up outside your primary hosting provider.

And if you’ve built all your infrastructure in a way that cannot be replicated outside that hosting provider then frankly that’s negligent.

All those AWS Lambda functions that talk to DynamoDB? Guess what…. none of that can be brought up elsewhere when you lose your AWS account.

If you are a CTO then this is your primary responsibility and priority above everything else. If you are a CTO who has failed to ensure your business can survive losing your cloud then you are a failed CTO.

[konschubert]

At this standard, many small online businesses would not be possible.

I think that would be a loss.

[andrewstuart]

It’s the minimum standard for any company big enough to employ a CTO.

[konschubert]

And smaller companies?

[andrewstuart]

Well I don’t know who is going to tell them without a CTO, but the first and most important priority of IT is disaster recovery.

[_w1tm]

If they can afford a software engineer, then they can afford a disaster recovery strategy.