Lydia Leong

Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, covering cloud computing (IaaS+PaaS, transformation). Violinist and gamer. Opinions are my own. RTs do not imply agreement.

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

My team at Gartner is hiring! If you have an SRE, cloud operations, or DevOps-oriented automation-first modern ops background, and are tired of being on call, this is a great opportunity! https://t.co/N0hPomtzFh

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

I'm looking forward to a formal Google Cloud postmortem. (I did get a private explanation, though. Customers -- and regulators -- quite interested in this incident.)

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

@QuinnyPig I've been recalculating, and writing a new research note. Previous Gartner guidance not to lift-and-shift (and others bloviating about repatriation) was based on the presumption that buying on-premises infrastructure is cheaper than renting those resources as cloud IaaS...

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

I've been doing light updates to a bunch of my older research, but I have a totally new assessment of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: https://t.co/bZitEDHxlI (Gartner paywall). Use cases evaluated are public, private, multicloud, sovereign, and hybrid cloud -- and edge.

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

I am delighted to say that my 2nd grader ran @gshowitt's Honey Heist at his school tabletop games club today and it was apparently awesome. HoneyCon was a faerie convention. First foray GMing something other than D&D. I had to black out the profanity on his game printout though.

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

This is simultaneously the funniest and saddest thing I've read today: Men hit on scheduling email bot. https://t.co/9Pja565FC8

[Charles Fitzgerald @charlesfitz]

That didn’t take long

https://t.co/9TVxkN2628

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Oh, right, the URL would probably help. https://t.co/OeY0LOgDLj

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

I agree with @QuinnyPig's analysis. (But the inquiries from enterprises doing "something psychotic with thousands of IPs" started yesterday...)

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

BREAKING:
Today is my birthday, so @awscloud got me a present: a full day of answering questions about what their price increase is going to mean for people.

Your AWS bill is about to go up when they start charging for every IPv4 public address in Feb.

https://t.co/qgVZgeVfJ3

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

Very interesting thread, although I suspect some of the disconnect here is what constitutes an outage acknowledged on a status page vs what is "just" a higher than typical error rate that hasn't yet violated an internal SLO.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

It's never a good sign for any engineering team when customers detect an outage before they do. If this is hours before: that is embarrassing.

Render (a customer of Google Cloud) detected the outage ~3.5 hours before Google Cloud acknowledged it.

Does not instill confidence.

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

Crazy new world we live in. Good reminder that having anything important remotely controlled is a bad idea. (Sources are in thread and here: https://t.co/zuqGhAxogn)

Amazon is the same firm that remotely deleted books off of Kindles. Weekly reminder not to depend on the cloud!

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

@rseroter @rseroter @ekhnaser C'mon Eli, this is an embarassing drinking of vendor kool-aid. "[GDC-H] is almost indistinguishable from that of Google Cloud" -- Really? Have you read the docs? Looked at the APIs? Not even a little bit true.

[steve o'grady @sogrady]

said this a bunch recently, but we need a word that means this is equal parts unbelievable and totally believable

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

Is wreckage displayed on @googlecloud service health page real? If so, how has "water flooded our Paris DC" turned into "many services in South Carolina are impacted"? (Follow-on effects on the rest of Europe more readily imaginable if still surprising.)

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

New research from me (Gartner paywall): "Quick Answer: How Should Executive Leaders Plan for Cloud Outages?" - https://t.co/nxnwQgUffi

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

After twenty years, it's time... new profile pic.

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

New research from me (yes, yet another note): "Cloud Governance Best Practices: Managing Vendor Lock-In Risks in Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS". Gartner for Technical Professionals paywall -https://t.co/zOpzMyaFb3

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

New research from me: "Introducing the 'You Build It, You Run It' Modern Operations Pattern" (Gartner paywall: https://t.co/LRNMI7fRJb)

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

New blog post addressing the reasons that many organizations don't need "FinOps" per se. https://t.co/bXnAuE1L1B

[Lydia Leong @cloudpundit]

New research from me (with banking analyst Vittorio D'Orazio): "Top Practices for Bank CIOs: Managing Cloud Concentration Risk" (Gartner paywall - https://t.co/vdTlw1KSso)