From my perspective, when AWS and Azure fail almost at the same time, we realize that the cloud also has gray days.
🔴** Is the cloud a solution or a hidden risk?**
In less than 10 days, two tech giants faced outages that disrupted critical services worldwide:
On October 20: AWS experienced a major disruption in the US-EAST-1 region due to DNS issues, impacting EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, and other key services.
On October 29: Azure suffered an outage in its Front Door service, affecting Microsoft 365, Xbox, Intune, and even banks like BCP and Interbank in Peru.
🤔 These incidents force us to rethink how we view the cloud. We are so focused on the cloud solving our problems that we forget to** design for when it fails**. It’s not enough to build scalable architectures or pay for “High Availability.”
✍ What we need is a resilience mindset—where distributed architecture, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery are part of the design, not just a patch.
💡 So, what are we doing to prepare for the inevitable? Do we still believe that “everything in the cloud” is enough? Or should we start talking about fault-tolerant architectures, automated recovery, multi-regional distribution, and real continuity testing?
The cloud is not the final destination—it’s part of the journey. And like any journey, it can have interruptions.ticles/mb34ouwkltktxrab8tti.png)
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