Drew Firment drives scalable and sustainable transitions to cloud computing though education.
Last week's AWS disruption inconvenienced businesses and consumers alike. It's not necessarily a sign of cloud interoperability's downfall.
Large enterprises struggle to hire and retain staff that can work with AWS, Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms. Bringing in outside talent isn't always the best way to close the cloud skills gap. Instead, retrain and support existing staff to help in the transition.
The idea that they're somehow not going to be able to support the organization just because we moved to cloud is sort of insane. The key is how do you unlock that potential and provide those individuals with a clear pathway.
You can create multi-region, you can do multi-cloud … but a lot of those multis will cost you multi-millions as well. Mileage varies in terms of really focusing on what is the impact of these outages — and realistically they do come few and far between.