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5 Steps to Avoid a Cloud Outage and Save Money

In the world of cloud – be prepared for volatile and constantly changing parameters. The more prepared you are around your critical systems, the quicker you can recover. Continue reading

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Microsoft Azure Storage Issues Caused by Two Incidents

Microsoft said Thursday morning that it has restored Azure services affected by a storage incident that disrupted services in 26 of the public cloud’s 28 regions, according to its status page. Azure lists two separate incidents on its status history page, the global one beginning at 22:42 UTC on Wednesday… Continue reading

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How to Survive an AWS Outage

One of the biggest questions following Amazon’s cloud meltdown last week was whether you can use the world’s biggest cloud provider and still avoid downtime when the provider has a major outage – a common if infrequent occurrence. Continue reading

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AWS Meets the Hydra: One Error Brings Hours of Cloud Downtime

The word of the day is hydra, defined by Dictionary.com as a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved. Continue reading

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This Week in Post-Mortems: Cloudflare Bug and AWS Cloud Outage

More details around the security issue at Cloudflare, reported last week, and this week’s outage at AWS have emerged. Continue reading

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