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There's a direct parallel between the way customers want to use cost info and sustainability metrics. cloudpundit.com/2023/03/13/gre…

CloudPunditry weekly cloud computing links: paper.li/cloudpundit/14… #iaas #availabilityzones

New research from me (with banking analyst Vittorio D'Orazio): "Top Practices for Bank CIOs: Managing Cloud Concentration Risk" (Gartner paywall - gartner.com/document/42194…)

New blog post addressing the reasons that many organizations don't need "FinOps" per se. cloudpundit.com/2023/03/31/fin…

New research from me: "Introducing the 'You Build It, You Run It' Modern Operations Pattern" (Gartner paywall: gtnr.it/3KO5Fqu)

New research from me (yes, yet another note): "Cloud Governance Best Practices: Managing Vendor Lock-In Risks in Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS". Gartner for Technical Professionals paywall -gtnr.it/3GEtMW4

After twenty years, it's time... new profile pic.

New research from me (Gartner paywall): "Quick Answer: How Should Executive Leaders Plan for Cloud Outages?" - gtnr.it/41EvTRW

Is wreckage displayed on Google Cloud service health page real? If so, how has "water flooded our Paris DC" turned into "many services in South Carolina are impacted"? (Follow-on effects on the rest of Europe more readily imaginable if still surprising.)

Crazy new world we live in. Good reminder that having anything important remotely controlled is a bad idea. (Sources are in thread and here: medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-…) Amazon is the same firm that remotely deleted books off of Kindles. Weekly reminder not to depend on the cloud!

Very interesting thread, although I suspect some of the disconnect here is what constitutes an outage acknowledged on a status page vs what is "just" a higher than typical error rate that hasn't yet violated an internal SLO.

I agree with Corey Quinn's analysis. (But the inquiries from enterprises doing "something psychotic with thousands of IPs" started yesterday...)

That didn’t take long arstechnica.com/?p=1990440

This is simultaneously the funniest and saddest thing I've read today: Men hit on scheduling email bot. askamanager.org/2024/01/men-ar…

I am delighted to say that my 2nd grader ran Grant Howitt's Honey Heist at his school tabletop games club today and it was apparently awesome. HoneyCon was a faerie convention. First foray GMing something other than D&D. I had to black out the profanity on his game printout though.

I've been doing light updates to a bunch of my older research, but I have a totally new assessment of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: gartner.com/document/52076… (Gartner paywall). Use cases evaluated are public, private, multicloud, sovereign, and hybrid cloud -- and edge.

I'm looking forward to a formal Google Cloud postmortem. (I did get a private explanation, though. Customers -- and regulators -- quite interested in this incident.)

My team at Gartner is hiring! If you have an SRE, cloud operations, or DevOps-oriented automation-first modern ops background, and are tired of being on call, this is a great opportunity! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…