I just got a note that Amazon API Gateway is now available in AWS GovCloud. This makes things more interesting for GovCloud for sure, but it’s just a minor stepping stone. Remember, just because it’s in GovCloud doesn’t mean it’s FedRAMP’d (even though it probably is).
If you hired a cloud consultant that heartily recommends a “lift and shift” migration and they assure you that everything will be fine…
Fire them.
It won’t be fine.
If you’ve visited this site recently, you’ll discover that I’m really sick of Wordpress. I’m trying to get Wordpress out of my life completely. I’m sick of the security issues, the overhead, the ridiculousness, the databases… all of it. I’m just sick of it. I wanted to go back to something more static and more simple. Wordpress is all well and good and easy to use, but it also suffers from some really nasty performance and security issues.
I really think Microsoft Azure is screwed.
It’ll still be around to power Microsoft’s backend services, but as a public offering to compete against AWS… it’s toast.
Also… OneDrive… seriously, wtf?
This post summarizes my thoughts on Nadella’s Microsoft very nicely.
When OneDrive gets provider-side encryption and an API that puts it on par with Dropbox… the war is really on.
