I’m a stickler for security but any time I mention concerns even to project owners and seasoned engineers I only get vacant stares. Don’t trust anything cloud to keep your data safe. Nobody cares.
I’ll be happy when we stop calling things “the cloud”. Maybe “upstream processors” or something would be better.
That’s never going to change. It’s cloud infrastructure. It’s not a company specific term, it’s industry wide, and convincing an entire industry to arbitrarily change what we call something won’t happen. Even changing from master to main isn’t the case everywhere, and main is the default now.
Also, ‘the cloud’ is both easier to say and remember than ‘upstream processors’, which in itself isn’t an accurate name for cloud resources, really just one resource.
‘The cloud’ to non-IT people is just remote hosting or processing. It’s marketing terminology. Everything with a client \ server where the server was off-site suddenly became “the cloud”. If you have elastic resource computing on site, is it still “the cloud”? Sorry I just never liked the term because it was used so broadly and to generate excitement among non technical people.
Off-site resources aren’t by default a cloud solution. The differentiation is mainly in a cloud, it’s a cluster of shared resources that host virtual machines and are connected through virtual networks. Having a dedicated server to host your stuff on is just remote hosting. A company can setup and host their only cloud infrastructure if they want.
To non IT people, the difference between interfacing with something in the cloud or a dedicated hosted setup doesn’t exist. If they post a comment on Lemmy, that’s may be hosted in a cloud or hosted locally on a server somewhere. If they are storing pictures in Away, then that is cloud storage.
So their is a distinction on the back end mostly, but it’s just the way resources are hosted and shared, so the front end would be the same regardless.
