Re: Disaster Recovery and Hurricane Harvey

On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:25:26 +0200 (CEST) Stefan Koehler <contact_at_soocs.de> wrote:

> Just put your database into the cloud and everything will be safe. No environmental disaster or
> bombing can harm the cloud.

Yes, you are right, of course:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/ Once you move thing into the cloud, you are no longer running things on computers but on the water vapor. Thus the expression "vaporware". And water vapor cannot be destroyed by bombs.

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