Slight topic drift - Any thoughts on how the pandemic might materially change assumptions about an onsite/onprem being better than cloud or manage data center when the code people are now actually remote to the “Local” infrastructure. Something specific to the reality of the pandemic strikes me as something that would make the die hard local only folks have to start rethinking the position.
(Not to suggest it’s bad, just different now that a primary assumption about people work in the office is less true)
As someone who works in a very anti-cloud company culture (which I happen to agree with), this incident has had no effect whatsoever on that mindset. We don't dislike cloud because it is accessed remotely, we dislike cloud because of the lack of control we have over everything running there. If something happens and our local systems have a problem, there are people here, like myself, who's highest priority will be fixing it and second highest priority will be communicating the status of that. Your problems are never a priority to a cloud vendor and communicating with you is even less of a priority. That's before we even get into the absurd expenses and reliance on big fat pipes.
I feel a lot safer knowing I'm controlling all the variables during a global crisis, actually.
This article provides an example of how when you operate on prem, literally any crazy option remains on the table for you. If you asked your cloud provider to do this, it'd be a no.
(Not to suggest it’s bad, just different now that a primary assumption about people work in the office is less true)