Cloud Computing

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i don't know if you saw the news recently, but one of canada's major telecom providers went down for 15 hours. And i was like, its petition on impa structure really going to make a difference? Or do you just need to build more redundancy into the systemlike, because i don't think you're going to get much, much competition on a national telecom impa structure like that, right? I'm not aware of any oversight of any sort really, of cloud services. The very reason the et n t was broken up was because there was concern about this private entity having so much control over something that was so important to the nation.

Paris Marx is joined by Dwayne Monroe to discuss what it’s like to work in a data center, how the cloud came to hold a dominant position, and the consequences of its control by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Dwayne Monroe is a cloud technologist and aspiring Marxist theorist of technology, with twenty years of experience architecting large-scale computational systems. Follow Dwayne on Twitter at @cloudquistador.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Dwayne wrote about cloud computing for Logic Magazine. He’s also written about a public cloud and the metaverse on his blog.
Amazon’s cloud infrastructure in the eastern United States experienced a major outage in December 2021.
Residents in various parts of the world have been questioning the logic of building data centers, including in the United States and New Zealand.
In July, the network of Canadian telecom giant Rogers went down, leaving millions without service.

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