Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud provider, experienced a significant outage on Monday, October 20th that disrupted services for millions of users worldwide. This incident highlighted the inherent risks associated with relying heavily on a single cloud provider for critical infrastructure.
Disasters are situations that every business hopes to avoid, but every business must prepare for them nevertheless. While many of us have worked through the pandemic by adapting to this particular disaster through the utilization of remote work, cloud collaboration, and video conferencing, this is but one of many such disaster scenarios businesses may confront as we move forward.