Diversify Your Cloud
https://www.petri.com/diversify-your-cloud
by Brad Sams in Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
Posted on March 6, 2017
The cloud is the magical, be-all, end-all, solution to every IT problem that has ever existed or will exist if you believe the marketing. Amazon, Microsoft, Google and everyone else who makes up the cloud segment make big promises about their infrastructure but they still face the same challenges as on-premises environments, you are only as strong as your weakest link.
Last week, Amazon had a major outage with AWS that impacted thousands of companies and likely millions of end-users when an employee accidently entered the wrong command to attempt to fix a billing issue. The input took down many servers on accident which created a ripple effect that rendered much of AWS useless; you can read the triage report here.
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