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Given that the AWS outage was caused by human error, the first question I’d ask is whether blaming the public cloud for the outage is fair.

ComputerWeekly’s Cliff Saran writes that ‘AWS Outage Shows Vulnerability of Cloud Disaster Recovery’ in his article of 6th March 2017. He cites the S3 outage suffered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) on 28th February 2017 as an example of the risks you pose 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 says.

Given that the AWS outage was caused by human error, the first question I’d ask is whether blaming the public cloud for the outage is fair. The second question that I’d like to pose is: Could this incident have been prevented by using a data acceleration solution to deploy machine intelligence to reduce the potential calamities that can be caused by 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.”

Find out the answer here…

Published by IT Pro Portal on 28th August 2017. Author: Graham Jarvis. #Bridgeworks. #YearInReview

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