Amazon’s latest service failure comes months after two high-profile outages that hit Netflix and other popular websites such as photo-sharing service Instagram and Pinterest. Industry executives, however, say its downtimes tend to attract more attention because of its outsized market footprint.
“Netflix and other organizations which rely on [cloud services] will have to reexamine how they configure their services and allocate their service requirements across multiple providers to mitigate over-dependency and risks,†said Jeff Kaplan, managing director of consultancy ThinkStrategies Inc.
Black Enterprise published an article on steps your business should take to minimize your risk during a cloud outage.
Black Enterprise reader named Ellis J. Still added the comment “this is why we have multiple back-ups of back-ups of everything… while in today’s technical climate it may be in vogue to utilize third party services, you have no control over when things go bad. Having a Plan “B” is essential.â€