Cloud:Think!BeforeUsage

No mattter whether you use Amazon(AWS), Google(GCP), Microsoft(Azure/Office365), or any other Cloud service, there's one rule for all of them:

T H I N K ! BEFORE YOU USE THEM

• Privacy shield

- Since 2020-07-16 there's no more data agreement between the U.S.A. and the European Union at all.

de.wikipedia - privacy shield is void

• US cloud usage risk:

NO legal basis for US cloud usage for companies in the EU anymore

EU companies have to investigate their US cloud usage NOW!

• US Cloud act

US law enforcement has the permissions to get acces to all your cloud data

PROVIDER "fails"

=> unsorted links below, (german/english URLs mixed) - work in progress...

* Apple

iCloud

2020-10-09 - 55 security fails on iCloud

* Google(GCP)

2020-10-10 - Google IP-addresses/search requests/US law enforcment/GDPR incompatible?

* Microsoft

Office365

2020-10-05 => office365 is GDPR/(DSGVO) INCOMPATIBLE #1

2020-10-06 => office365 is GDPR/(DSGVO) INCOMPATIBLE #2

Azure

Azure Monitoring Agent for Linux

- no automatic update/no repository available

- a lot of files have wrong DAC settings (up to completely wrong octal notations of 777)

- minimal RAM requirements for one host 10GB of RAM (!)

- potential memory leak ahead

- monitoring processes with syslog - sorry I've never seen that before

- no predictive monitoring like the partition /opt will be full in 3 days

Prometheus and a lot of other tools are capable out of the box to accomplish that

...many more to come...

SOLUTIONS: There are solutions for this dilemma, use on-premise installations/servers (although it's old fashioned), create your own private cloud (e.g. with OKD (Origin Community Distribution)), use Nextcloud instead of sharepoint/onedrive, and so on.