By: Jesse Langhoff, Director of Sales
Today is one of those days. Not the best day to be Amazon Web Services. And it’s not a great day to have all of your mission-critical services sitting on top of it alone. The dreaded network outage. Its impact is being felt everywhere from AWS Chime web conferences services being unavailable, delivery trucks being sidelined, many of the SaaS services we all consume on a daily basis being unreachable, to downing far flung things like hosted blockchain nodes and making it impossible for me to communicate with my Roomba via its mobile app. My poor, directionless Roomba.
AWS is a premier provider of hundreds of cloud-based services globally. It’s a de facto standard and in almost every conversation when an enterprise talks about going from on-prem to the cloud. However, outages like these as infrequent as they may be remind us that the cloud (should you choose one) can be a single point of failure. It’s why we advocate for platform independent technologies like Snowflake, Terraform, and Ansible and why your cloud journey should consider how you can straddle multiple clouds or operate between the cloud and on-prem.
Failure is inevitable. How we adapt to failure is up to us. While the cloud is fault tolerant, it isn’t faultless. Drop us a line if you want to talk hybrid or multicloud.