Cloud Transformation

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In the early days of cloud, it was only really amazon web services that offered anything serious in this area. For larger enterprises, as we call them, and i'll just use an example, let's say you're a massive paper clip company,. Andttat alarri, investment in a your own data center, or perhaps a colocation cloud, came in cunting through the back door because people needed to solve problems. But for smaller firms who didn't have the capital could begin to spin up solutions, create solutions on the cloud. Now there's a misunderstanding about how much power these prviders are actually exerting over each other.

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.
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