Translated: All ATMs from all big dutch banks rely on Amazon AWS.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/115910470198130888

Translated: All ATMs from all big dutch banks rely on Amazon AWS. So if there's a disruption with the US and you think to yourself "hey, I'm gonna pay with cash", you won't be able to get cash.

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@jwildeboer
Und Bankautomaten in Deutschland?
Wie sind die angeschlossen?

[ojs@c.im]

@jwildeboer and Banks themselves? Are they cashless now? I think they are cashless here in Denmark.

[oschonrock@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer

Shocking. I mean, I was probably a bit unusual to argue against overuse of cloud infrastructure 15yrs ago.

Cloud make sense only for the very smallest businesses for whom tech is not core, and who need at most "part of a publicly accessible server", and who don't have dedicated sysadmin type staff.

But for a bank? Which has huge tech department? And then for publicly critical infrastructure?

That is outright lazy and irresponsible not to host your own???!!

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@jwildeboer Oof. Time to stock up under the mattress?😉

[oschonrock@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer

For anyone who has worked in tech for a few decades it should be abundantly clear that both the main internal cost *and* the main competence of your typical US enterprise tech company is ....

Sales...Not tech...

literally 80% of what you are paying for is sales.

So if tech is any kind of strategic internal competence, it quickly becomes sensible to be much less reliant on companies who spend most of their effort selling you things you really don't need / are not in your interest