Cloud is accused of kidnapping users: high cost of data migration

"Vonna Wigger http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/5343.html, Amazon" > Chief Technology Officer (CTO), said in an interview yesterday that The company's leading cloud computing infrastructure services product has a core philosophy that customers should be able to choose the services and products they want at any time. "Consumers should be able to put their suppliers in front of each day," Wigger said. If we can't provide a good quality of service, the user will leave. Consumers should be fully controlled. This is our core philosophy. "Wigger focuses on the Amazon's pay-as-you-go model and how much consumers pay for it." However, many complain that Amazon Web services and other cloud services have caused users to be kidnapped and cannot easily transfer data. Of course, the system can be turned off and turned on, but how hard is it to move data out of Amazon's network services S3 (simple Storage service)?

"In the cloud community, there is a popular concept that data has weight, and once you have the data in a cloud provider server, it becomes cumbersome and difficult to relocate," said Dan Koffler, Hybird Cloud Gateway founder Cavreux. "It's not difficult to move data outside of S3, but it's more expensive than storing data."

Cavreux says providers are targeting consumers, which is a barrier to pervasive cloud computing. Lock-in is also the biggest concern for customers when it comes to determining cloud computing strategies. Amazon is not much better on the issue than other public cloud computing, such as Terremark, Rackspace and Gogrid Cloud Hosting, and certainly not bad. Cavreux said: "Everyone, it is part of the cloud computing business model, they want to let customers accept cloud computing, they want to retain customers." ”

The company is committed to providing customer selectivity and flexibility, and says customers do not want to be locked into specific operating systems and programming languages, and they want to bring existing technologies into the cloud, the Amazon Internet Service spokesperson said in an email. The message also explains that moving data out of the S3 system costs less than loading the data into the system because the company is using more people to back up the data. As long as customers are willing to increase or transfer data freely, such requests account for only a small portion of the customer's overhead.

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