{"id":11555,"date":"2022-01-27T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T23:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/?p=11555"},"modified":"2023-07-31T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:35:00","slug":"aws-contract-hidden-zombie-apocalypse-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/aws-contract-hidden-zombie-apocalypse-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Does AWS Contract Have Hidden Zombie Apocalypse Clause?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #666666;\">Tricks aren\u2019t intended for cloud providers, even on Halloween.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #666666;\">In 2016, Amazon Web Services put in an \u201cEaster Egg\u201d (not to mix up holidays) in the cloud Service Level Agreement of a game engine called Lumberyard. As documented within an article from Business Insider, the clause states that \u201c<span style=\"color: #1eaedb;\"><a style=\"color: #1eaedb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-zombie-clause-2016-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developers can\u2019t use its materials for \u2018life-critical or safety-critical systems.<\/a><\/span>\u201d However, the rule can be voided if there is \u201ca widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While developers often hide information like this to be funny, there is something to be said about other clauses hidden in agreements with cloud services providers. Below are a couple of hidden things to be on the look for that are not jokes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Downtime<\/strong><br \/>\nDowntime refers to a period that cloud services are unavailable due to network connectivity issues or loss of power. Even with multiple redundancy levels, your data or the Azure Zone itself is not fully protected from a critical event. Businesses should look for 99.99% global uptime with a hot\/hot cloud configuration or multiple availability zones. A hot\/hot design is where all servers have independent operational DB2 databases that service users\u2019 transactions and queries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unexpected Costs<\/strong><br \/>\nImproper architectures are the most common faults of a cloud environment. Inefficient mixes of cloud-native and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources can result in an enterprise spending more than they need. To avoid this costly mistake, it\u2019s best to partner with a company like 3Cloud, which can unwind a sub-optimal configuration and even manage the cloud environment for you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">While developers may add these Easter Eggs to have a little fun, some hidden notices can cost your organization. Avoid these hidden clauses by partnering with a cloud and data analytics consulting company <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">like 3Cloud, experienced in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/get-started\/\">delivering cloud optimization and management services<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tricks aren\u2019t intended for cloud providers, even on Halloween. (more&hellip;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-11555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure-strategy-management","tag-strategy","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}