Outages
"The goal is shifting from automating recovery to sustaining continuity. When a SaaS outage occurs, resilience depends not on faster failover, but on clear processes, tested workarounds, and business-led decisions"
Incident "originated from within the EC2 internal network"
One-region trouble takes down AWS' own support tools too.
AI and consolidation drive sales, but briefly bringing down large swathes of the planet is still a drag.
"We have identified the cause and are rolling out changes to restore normal service"
"If this had been flag protected, the issue would have been caught in staging"
GCP promises in future to "prevent metadata from propagating globally without appropriate protection, testing and monitoring in place."
"Expired certificates, DDoS attacks; broken hardware or networks; Crowdstrike’s outage; third-party issues: those looking at what UK banks have blamed for their IT outages over the past two years will soon see that the list is wide. But the biggest culprit by far?"