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You're right. It's technically a virtual private cloud. We've found that nowadays VPC works for most people. The days of on-premises platforms are numbered.
by mwmanning 11y ago
You're right. It's technically a virtual private cloud. We've found that nowadays VPC works for most people. The days of on-premises platforms are numbered.
- rubiquity 11y agoDays numbered or not (aside: take a look around Fortune 1000 and you'll see it's alive and well) the term private cloud has a definition. Someone should come up with a term for subnets inside a public cloud.
- ddollar 11y agoThanks for the interest :) We have been trying to figure out the best way to describe our platform and "private cloud" seems the closest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud
- devonkim 11y agoThe fact that Amazon offers Direct Connect shows that on-premises platform growth are certainly numbered but not the mere existence of them. Plenty of companies are still forcibly keeping their data in their own datacenters due to regulatory reasons despite desperately wanting to use third party providers. So until these regulations change (I'd bet it'll happen for PCI-DSS level 2+ before several federal ones unless FedRAMP supersedes them all) the largest possible users for AWS (and sadly, the most likely to benefit from it the most) are likely to be stuck operating stupidly expensive datacenters for pretty much no good reason besides making last-generation tech jobs.