When The Cloud Jumps Into Real-life … Meet Snowcone

Working at the edge of the cloud

Well. This week I’ve taken the jump from a bare-metal server to AWS, and I think I’ve saved myself some money, as I’ve managed to get an efficient Web infrastructure, and which actually perform better. I now understand the costings of AWS, and actually it’s quite simple, and where it is disk space that costs much more than server time. But, it’s the flexibility of the cloud, and the ability to scale up and down as require that the Cloud comes to the fore.

If this COVID-19 period has shown us something, it is that we need to become more resilient, especially as we increasingly rely on the access to computing resources and networks.

Our society and organisations need to become more resilient, and especially on what happens in an emergency situation. What happens if the electrical power in a hospital fails? What if there’s a major explosion within a city centre? Overall we are becoming increasingly dependent on AWS and Azure clouds, but what happens when the connection to the cloud fails, would we still be able to operate? Well, for this we must move to the edge of the cloud, and see if we can jump our of the Cloud and into our physical environment. If you have lots of data and/or require lots of computation, but have limited bandwidth, how do you still…