An Amazon Web Services outage has been causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.
On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others.
Ah, multi cloud. Before we had an outage when AWS went down, now we have an outage every time any cloud provider goes down
Yup.
Um, you’re not doing it right if that’s the case. Multi-cloud redundancy reduces downtime, it doesn’t increase downtime unless you’re doing something stupid like dividing up your SPOFs
Yes, if everything is configured correctly, then an outage can be either avoided completely or reduced to the time it takes to switch the traffic over (and scale up and so on). But this is not the case as can be seen from today’s events.
Well guess it depends which companies we are talking about, and which if any have multi cloud redundancy… and if they are configured correctly. Obviously if someone has a multi cloud environment, configured perfectly to be unaffected, we just wouldn’t know what they have in the cloud, because the lack of outage wouldn’t generate any news.