Amazon’s AWS outage teached us that having mission-critical business systems running in the cloud doesn’t mean you don’t have to plan for high availability. Learn what you need to consider in this blog post.
One week ago, Amazon’s AWS customers impressively experienced what it means to depend on a cloud provider’s infrastructure as the US-EAST-1 region came down due to an employee’s error. Since, I’ve had lots of discussions about resiliency, reliability and redundancy of cloud infrastructures, especially of Microsoft’s Azure and Office 365 datacenters. But what happened? And is there any possibility to avoid your business coming down if there is a hardware outage in one of the Azure/Office 365 regions?
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