alt Hacker NewsI'm curious what people think of BYOC (bring your own cloud) as an option offering to customers or buying it as a customer. Looking at Northflanks website they list it as an offering, I presume those customers are not affected by the breach.
What are your opinion on the concept? Growing trend that should be encouraged or a mistake for most startups? Would you choose one provider over the other because of it assuming price was about the same?
I get that this is often a super expensive "call us" option today, but in theory it doesn't have to be, so for the sake of discussion let's assume it can be delivered at a reasonable cost for the provider at reasonable price for the customer.
If people from Northflanks is reading this, I'm sorry for the incident and I hope you recover as soon as possible.
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We are increasingly seeing deployments trend in that direction. But trust goes both ways and putting systems in place to prevent abuse from either party is hard and needs to be thought through.
Depends on the nature of the breach, if its a flaw in the software itself, then perhaps exploitable both in the hosted offering and BYOC offering, though perhaps the BYOC aspect gives a bit of "security-through-obscurity" and less discoverable as a target.