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ComputerWeekly’s Cliff Saran wrote that “AWS Outage Shows Vulnerability of Cloud Disaster Recovery” in his article of March 6, 2017. He cites the S3 outage suffered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) on February 28, 2017, as an example of the risks you face by running critical systems in the public cloud. “The consensus is that the public cloud is superior to on-premise datacentres, but AWS’s outage, caused by human error, shows that even the most sophisticated cloud IT infrastructure is not infallible,” he said.

Given that the AWS outage was caused by human error, the first question is whether blaming the public cloud for the outage is fair. The second question is, could this incident have been prevented by using data acceleration to deploy machine intelligence and thus reduce the potential calamities that can result from human error? In the case of the AWS S3 outage, a simple typographical error wreaked havoc to the extent that the company couldn’t, according to the Register—“get into its own dashboard to warn the world.”

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Published by Data Center Journal on 3rd July 2017. Author: Graham Jarvis. #YearInReview. #Bridgeworks

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