The illusion of the Cloud

• „[The] “cloud” is a massive interconnected physical infrastructure which exists across the world.“
• By using cloud services from Amazon, Google, Microsoft one can outsource one’s own infrastructure setup with all it’s challenges
• now: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
• super-cheap hosting with a price that depends on usage and is scalable
• „The actual infrastructure at the heart of AWS’ infrastructure-as-a-service isn’t the thing that makes it important to developers; it’s the services and APIs built on top of that infrastructure.“ (Ingrid Burrington)

Links:

• Ethics and Archiving the Web – Distributed Web of Care
• Why Amazon’s Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country