Do Cloud Outages Emerge as the Consequence of Prioritizing Cost over Reliability?
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In recent years, the cloud services landscape has transformed into a super competitive marketplace. As market competition grows fierce, providers have engaged in relentless price wars to secure a more extensive client base. While the underlying mechanisms responsible for numerous cloud outages eventually come to light, the recurrence of certain issues can be attributed to the […]
Instructive Lesson From The Amazon S3 Outage
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On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, an Amazon employee made a typo during a routine billing system repair and, rather than taking only a few servers offline, instead took down a significant (but still unspecified) number of the nearly 150,000 unique websites and apps hosted or supported by the Amazon cloud computing S3 service. Affected sites […]