Windows 10: Cloud services - global outage again today

Hi folks I think the AZURE service (Ms) was unaffected but those who always advocate move everything to the cloud should consider that these services do suffer downtime (more frequently than realized). From the BBC today Major websites hit by global outage - BBC News Cheers jimbo

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Cloud services not always 100% up, Outages today in major providers

Hi folks
While a lot here like using some Cloud services these things aren't immune from outages -- even the *Mighty Amazon* was out for part of today in quite a large part of the world.

Read more Websites begin to work again after major breakage - BBC News

Cheers
jimbo

 

Cloud services not always 100% up, Outages today in major providers

Absolutely true, hence the reason that as an enterprise that relies heavily on AWS, my organization encrypts everything. EBS volumes on EC2 instances are encrypted at rest, databases themselves are encrypted at rest, everything is https and encrypted in transit, etc.

Yeah, the cloud is a totally different mindset.

In the old days, we racked and stacked servers and we troubleshot problems on the servers and we backed up the data on the server so that we could restore it. We maintained systems for years and had extensive documentation. When a server went down, the techs were paged and we logged in to fix the issue.

Now, we build everything using infrastructure as code. Server are deployed via this code, and the data on the server itself is not critical. When a server goes down, the instance is simply terminated, and a brand new image is spun up to take the place of the broken server. We don't often troubleshoot a problem on a node anymore, we just check logging in an enterprise tool like Splunk. We can easily roll out new code multiple times per day, and if a problem exists, we simply roll the change back out. And 90% of the time, we don't use VM's anymore either, it's all containers and Kubernetes.

Yes, that's why the cloud providers replicate your data to multiple data centers, and have geographical presence in multiple countries all over the globe. And also the reason why organizations like to have multi-cloud presence too to protect against that random outage.

 

Cloud services not always 100% up, Outages today in major providers

It's very true, no cloud provider is available 100% of the time. It's predominately the reason why in the industry we try to utilize multiple cloud providers to ensure less chance of a systems outage. This also protects against internet outages as well, which happen from time to time.

Looking at cloud providers as a whole, while outages do occur from time to time....rarely, if ever, is any data actually lost. If you compare that with companies who do things internally, how often do many of them have 100% uptime or 0 loss of data.. For example, when has a company ever found that a system failed and their backups didn't work and they lost data....this happens with some regularity. Or if a system fails midday, they have to revert to a backup from a previous point in time and they lost X number of hours of data.