It doesn’t have to be entirely literal, or not literal at all.
A single point of managed/shared access to a drawer doesn’t fit all levels of data sensitivity and security.
I understand this kind of wording and analogy might be triggering for the drive by down voters.
A comment like the above though allows both people to openly consider viewpoints that may not be theirs.
For me it shed light on something simpler.
Shared access to shared infrastructure is not always secure as we want to tell ourselves. It’s important to be aware when it might be security through abstraction.
The dual security and convenience of self-hosting IaaS and PaaS even at a dev, staging or small scale production has improved dramatically, and allows for things to be built in a cloud agnostic way to allow switching clouds to be much easier. It can also easily build a business case to lower cloud costs. Still, it doesn’t have to be for everyone either, where the cloud turns to be everything.
A small example? For a stable homeland - their a couple of usff small servers running proxmox or something residential fibre behind a tailscale or cloudflare funnel and compare the cost for uptime. It’s surprising how much time servers and apps spend idling.
Life and the real world is more than binary. Be it all cloud or no cloud.
A single point of managed/shared access to a drawer doesn’t fit all levels of data sensitivity and security.
I understand this kind of wording and analogy might be triggering for the drive by down voters.
A comment like the above though allows both people to openly consider viewpoints that may not be theirs.
For me it shed light on something simpler.
Shared access to shared infrastructure is not always secure as we want to tell ourselves. It’s important to be aware when it might be security through abstraction.
The dual security and convenience of self-hosting IaaS and PaaS even at a dev, staging or small scale production has improved dramatically, and allows for things to be built in a cloud agnostic way to allow switching clouds to be much easier. It can also easily build a business case to lower cloud costs. Still, it doesn’t have to be for everyone either, where the cloud turns to be everything.
A small example? For a stable homeland - their a couple of usff small servers running proxmox or something residential fibre behind a tailscale or cloudflare funnel and compare the cost for uptime. It’s surprising how much time servers and apps spend idling.
Life and the real world is more than binary. Be it all cloud or no cloud.