This section of the briefing introduces the risks associated with cloud computing. The following topics are discussed:
- Business risks
- Security in the cloud
- Reliability and resilience
- Usability and performance
- Regulations and legislation
- Organisational change
Availability: Service Availability and Recover ability
Cloud providers may not be able to match in-house IT service availability, Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
Cloud providers may drastically change their business model or discontinue cloud services, impacting customers.
Availability: Complexity
Complexity introduced by a cloud computing environment can result in more components that must be managed, and more complex recovery procedures.
Availability: Single- Points-of-Failure
Even if the cloud environment is architecturally designed for high-availability, single-points-of-failure may exist in the access path to the cloud.
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