{"id":3618,"date":"2013-03-12T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2013-03-12T07:02:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:02:46","slug":"cloud-computing-on-premise-versus-cloud-uptimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-on-premise-versus-cloud-uptimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: On-Premise versus Cloud uptimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

While having all your applications running in your own data center may give you a better sense of control compared to a scenario where they’re running in the cloud, the uptimes of major cloud players typically exceed the uptimes provided by on-premise applications.<\/p>\n

Krishnan Subramanian<\/a>, principal analyst at Rishidot Research, told Services Angle<\/a> that\u00a0“in order to offer compute resources at scale for an affordable price, service providers are going to build their cloud platforms on commodity hardware. \u00a0With commodity hardware, outages happen. And at such large-scale, outages will be difficult to manage. So, it is important that apps are developed for cloud architecture keeping this basic nature of cloud in mind. \u2018Design for failure\u2019 has to be the mantra for cloud developers.”<\/p>\n

Subramanian blames the vendors<\/a> building services on top of cloud platforms as the true culprits when glitches at cloud providers like AWS ultimately occur. \u00a0“Many of the startups are running without a proper DR strategy. It is a shame that some of the well funded startups didn\u2019t bother to plan for such eventualities.”<\/p>\n

While media stories blare headlines of failure when cloud provider service outages happen, Subramanian notes that on-premise enterprise downtimes are typically much worse. \u00a0He said that “since it [an outage] is \u00a0internal and they are responsible for their destiny, it doesn\u2019t get amplified in the media.” \u00a0Another IT consultant commented <\/a>that “Amazon’s such a large target, you just hear about outages more often than you do with large enterprises.”<\/p>\n

SearchDataCenter<\/a> supports that conclusion with anecdotal information from IDC cloud research analyst\u00a0Rick Villars<\/a>. \u00a0Villars suggests that\u00a0\u00a0while major cloud platform vendors, like Amazon, score availability statistics in the range of 99.95 percent, enterprise data centers often lag behind with availability scores ranging closer to a range of 95 to 98.5 percent. \u00a0But Villars notes that interpreting the cloud vendor statistics are complicated because vendors may have multiple data centers and uptimes can be reported by vendors, like Amazon, as regional uptimes as opposed to the uptimes of a particular availability zone.<\/p>\n

Beth Pariseau, author of the SearchDataCenter article, calculates that a true uptime number for AWS may be closer to 99.5 percent, compared \u00a0the 99.95 percent regional uptime number that Amazon \u00a0quotes. \u00a0But even so, at 99.5 \u00a0percent, AWS still handily exceeds the uptimes reported by most internal enterprise IT operations.<\/p>\n

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