The AWS Outage Downed Slack, Zoom, and Notion, Among Others. A Multi-Cloud Approach Could've Helped

Written by CAST.AI | Published 2021/01/09
Tech Story Tags: multi-cloud | aws | cloud-computing | kubernetes | kubernetes-cluster | how-to-implement-multicloud | gcp | azure

TLDR Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a second in a row-major outage a few days ago. Most likely Slack, Zoom, and Notion were affected by this. Multi-Cloud approach could've helped ease the burden of putting all your eggs in one basket. CAST AI automatically shifts resources to Azure or Google Cloud when AWS has troubles. This strategy would still allow for some cloud providers to go down, but it would also ensure that a cloud going down would not mean downtime for your users.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2021/01/09