The Promise of Redundancy: Can the Impact of a Cloud Outage Be Avoided? 

The October 20 AWS outage was a powerful reminder of just how interconnected today’s applications and services have become. From banking to streaming, healthcare to logistics, organizations of all sizes and industries rely on a complex web of public cloud and other third-party services. As we saw, a single disruption can quickly cascade, affecting not just one company but entire industries and millions of end users.

Faced with such disruption, it’s natural to ask: Why aren’t more companies able to build effective redundancies to shield…