Newly released documents show Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services provided by US companies, with most of the money going to Microsoft — and its uses include what it calls "mission-critical" defence applications.
It should for sure strive to find additional partners to reduce as much as possible those dependencies as well.
Also the immediateness of distribution interruptions in sourcing CPU isn’t comparable to cutting critical services in the cloud.
The later being instantaneous while the former has a long time to impact.
You apply balance within the framework that allows you to be more resilient. Not in absolute.
We are talking about a country, not your local SMB.
It should for sure strive to find additional partners to reduce as much as possible those dependencies as well. Also the immediateness of distribution interruptions in sourcing CPU isn’t comparable to cutting critical services in the cloud. The later being instantaneous while the former has a long time to impact.
You apply balance within the framework that allows you to be more resilient. Not in absolute.
We are talking about a country, not your local SMB.