Some of these might have changed in the meantime, but the last I heard:
Dropbox
37 Signals
Wells-Fargo
Walmart
Stack Overflow
Companies that have sensitive data that have to be stored on-prem
Hell, if you go to most hosting-service company websites, you’ll find that they usually list some of their biggest customers in their marketing materials.
I’m aware of a number of companies that are multi-cloud. Many are Azure/AWS. Others are Azure,AWS, and GCP all at the same time. One is Azure,IBM Cloud. More recently OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) has been making a push to be the second cloud provider a company uses, not trying to replace the first. I apologize that I cannot disclose company names.
I’ll say that most of these I’m not seeing them become multi-cloud to have cross-cloud redundancy, but instead to take advantage of specific services in each cloud that is better than the other. Every now and then they’ll configure and application or two for multi-cloud redundancy (which is quite complicated), but @nixus@anarchist.nexus is right that lots of big companies are running multi-cloud already and if Signal did want to set up cross-cloud functionality they certainly could to protect themselves from a single cloud provider outage like what occurred with AWS on Monday.
No they didn’t. There are plenty of companies that run multi-regional services, outside of AWS. This is just an excuse for making poor choices.
Mind listing some?
Some of these might have changed in the meantime, but the last I heard:
Hell, if you go to most hosting-service company websites, you’ll find that they usually list some of their biggest customers in their marketing materials.
I think they meant AWS competitors, not companies that maintain multi-region configurations.
Shit, yeah I misread their comment. Was curious about the plenty I had never heard of. My bad.
I’m aware of a number of companies that are multi-cloud. Many are Azure/AWS. Others are Azure,AWS, and GCP all at the same time. One is Azure,IBM Cloud. More recently OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) has been making a push to be the second cloud provider a company uses, not trying to replace the first. I apologize that I cannot disclose company names.
I’ll say that most of these I’m not seeing them become multi-cloud to have cross-cloud redundancy, but instead to take advantage of specific services in each cloud that is better than the other. Every now and then they’ll configure and application or two for multi-cloud redundancy (which is quite complicated), but @nixus@anarchist.nexus is right that lots of big companies are running multi-cloud already and if Signal did want to set up cross-cloud functionality they certainly could to protect themselves from a single cloud provider outage like what occurred with AWS on Monday.