{"id":292,"date":"2013-10-22T06:41:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T19:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeescroll.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2013-10-22T06:41:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T19:41:06","slug":"11-problems-with-aws-the-lookup-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeescroll.com\/index.php\/11-problems-with-aws-the-lookup-table\/","title":{"rendered":"11 problems with AWS – the lookup table"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it’d be worth summarising the whole blog series in one easy Google-able post, so here is a summary of the 11-article rant<\/a> I went on.<\/p>\n

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Access to Cloud \/ Ladder to Heaven (FutUndBeidl via Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n

There is no particular order to this. It was a brain dump of all the obstacles I could see if an organisation decided to aggressively pursue an AWS first<\/em> strategy. Many of them apply across the whole cloud spectrum (Is that a mixed metaphor?). I will get around to developing a road-map document to address these issues. If you’re interested in a free draft of it send me a message through your preferred social network in the right side bar.<\/p>\n[table th=”1″]\n

Blog title,Issue,Description<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 1<\/a>,Data Sovereignty,Data in the cloud crosses many legal boundaries. Whose laws must you follow?
\n11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 2<\/a>,Latency,You cannot speed up those little electrons. Those inter- and trans-continental traversals add up!<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 3<\/a>,Vendor Lock-in,All those value-adds hook you in like a heroine.<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 4<\/a>,Cost Management,Keep throwing resources at it man! The monthly bill wont look that bad!<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 5<\/a>,Web Services,Distributed? This app is all over the place like a mad woman’s custard!<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 6<\/a>,Developer Skill,How good are our developers? Do they get Auto-scaling? Caching? Load balancing?<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 7<\/a>,Security,Where did you put my deepest secrets?<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 8<\/a>,Software Licensing,Am I allowed to run this in AWS? OR<\/strong> Why IBM is tanking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 9<\/a>,SLAs,99.95% is not 99.999%<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 10<\/a>,Cloud Skills,Pfft! Cloud skills! We did this 30 years ago on the mainframe!<\/p>\n

11 problems with AWS \u2013 part 11<\/a>,Other Financial things,Talk to your accountant about tax and insurance… urgh!<\/p>\n[\/table]\n

Enjoy and share and let me know what I’ve missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought it’d be worth summarising the whole blog series in one easy Google-able post, so here is a summary of the 11-article rant I went on. There is no particular order to this. It was a brain dump of all the obstacles I could see if an organisation decided to aggressively pursue an AWS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n