Cloud Costs & Security
Mornings With Mark
English - March 14, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 6.48 MBTechnology Society & Culture security privacy infosec cybersecurity hacker technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A recent survey from RightScale showed a lot of confusion around cloud computing costs. The common take away? Organizations are surprised at how high their cloud bills are. Similarly, the community was surprised at the size of Lyft's commitment to AWS (around 8 million per month).
But the root of this problem isn't what you think. It's not that cloud costs are high and rising, it's that organizations had little to no specific awareness of just how much they were paying in a traditional environment.
Sure, there was a top line item for IT but no breakdown on specific costs per application. That makes security extremely challenging. Not knowing the value of the data or the cost of the system processing that data means that security decisions are made largely in the dark.
References:
ZDNet's coverage of the RightScale survey, https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-cost-control-becoming-a-leading-issue-for-businesses
BusinessInsider covering the Lyft IPO, https://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-ipo-amazon-web-services-2019-3
Corey Quinn, cloud economist, https://twitter.com/quinnypig