What Would You Do?
Amazon experienced outage recently due to power failure and a software glitch in their host management software, potentially due to a Leap Second bug in Java.
I may not have all the causes correct. However, that really isn’t my point. Businesses are moving to the Cloud because it makes good sense. It can reduce cost and increase uptime (generally). SSWUG.org is hosted on the Amazon cloud.
Historically, Cloud providers have not been able to maintain as good a track record for uptime as self hosted solutions. Amazon has been hit twice in a pretty bad way the last couple years. Azure took a big hit this year. Other hosts have experienced the same thing.
My purpose is not to attack cloud providers. It is simply amazing what they are able to offer (although nothing new). Once again I feel compelled to ask the question, “What would you do when your cloud host goes down?”
If you are hosting your data in the cloud, what do you do when the data gets corrupted? If your apps are in the cloud, then you have different worries.
I think this is the biggest question of the day for application/data hosting. The cloud system providing better options than simple redundancy is going to have a distinct advantage, in my opinion. Today, I am not aware of any Cloud provider marketing cloud scale solutions addressing the real problem of disaster recovery.
What do you think? What would you do? Send your thoughts to btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben
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