As I write this, a number of sites out on the Internet are down because of an outage at Amazon Web Services. Delta Airlines is suffering a major outage. On a personal note, my wife's favorite radio app and my Lutron lighting system are not operating correctly. Of course, this outage is a reminder of the simple principle of not putting one's eggs in a single basket. AWS became the dominant web provider early on, but there are multiple viable alternatives now. Long before the modern cloud emerged, I regularly ran disaster recovery exercises to ensure business continuity when a data center or service provider failed. Everyone who uses a cloud provider better have a backup, and you better figure out a way to periodically test that backup. A few startups have emerged to make this easier.
Automation gone wild
Automation gone wild
Automation gone wild
As I write this, a number of sites out on the Internet are down because of an outage at Amazon Web Services. Delta Airlines is suffering a major outage. On a personal note, my wife's favorite radio app and my Lutron lighting system are not operating correctly. Of course, this outage is a reminder of the simple principle of not putting one's eggs in a single basket. AWS became the dominant web provider early on, but there are multiple viable alternatives now. Long before the modern cloud emerged, I regularly ran disaster recovery exercises to ensure business continuity when a data center or service provider failed. Everyone who uses a cloud provider better have a backup, and you better figure out a way to periodically test that backup. A few startups have emerged to make this easier.