Stop trusting cloud service providers so much.
This screenshot from a post on Threads is a great example of the kinds of real-world problems people (and companies) experience when they use a cloud-only architecture, through ignorance or intentional design.
Every person, and every company, needs to design their data systems architecture so that they have local control of all data. Put it in the cloud if it’s essential to your business operations, sure, but keep local copies as well.
We live in a time when most systems architects don’t even consider off-cloud elements in their design. It literally does not occur to them. When I do crisis support for companies after a ransomware attack, it’s gotten to the point where I expect them to say “no” when I ask them, “Do you have any offline copies of your data?”
(Description of screenshot: a woman posted on Threads that she lost access to her Microsoft account through a combination of events, some of which she could have prevented, and now it will be thirty days before Microsoft will allow her access to her files).
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