"A small company that apparently does ECG monitoring repeatedly begged for help on Amazon?s public online forum, bringing up good points on what to consider when hosting health apps on the cloud."
From the comments:
Someone immediately questioned why they would be running a mission-critical life-or-death system on the cloud, to which the original poster answered, ?Well, it is supposed to be reliable.? One of several uncharitable responses was:
If you were smart, you would have a disaster recovery plan for just this kind of thing. Judging from your lack of said preparations, you figured the cloud never goes down, and got greedy by not wanting to spend money on hot standby machines on a different infrastructure. Good going.....
Bert: I do think the last post was a bit harsh, but really, I have little sympathy for someone who keeps all their data online. That should be supplemental backup not your main backup.
