{"id":3192,"date":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/lessons-learned-from-aws-s3-outage-seize-control-of-your-it\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"lessons-learned-from-aws-s3-outage-seize-control-of-your-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/lessons-learned-from-aws-s3-outage-seize-control-of-your-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned from AWS S3 outage: Seize control of your IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon\u2019s S3 outage<\/a>\u00a0yesterday brought down a large part of the internet, leaving thousands of companies and their customers stranded. While the outage itself only lasted about four hours, the effects were felt for much longer, and it highlighted how reliable the public cloud truly is.<\/p>\n

One of the hardest things about cloud adoption for CIOs is dealing with the sense of losing control. For many CIOs, this came to light yesterday in AWS\u2019 outage. That sense of loss of control weighed heavy on many executives and IT staff as they watched their websites and applications stop working, frustrating their entire customer base.<\/p>\n

The promise of the public cloud is that it\u2019s more affordable, and highly available. But the outage yesterday provided a reality check: If you\u2019re going to use a high scale public cloud, you need to rewrite your application so that it can run in multiple regions. Few companies do this, thinking that the cloud is already resilient. It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

And to seize control of your costs, you need to write your application so that it\u2019s super efficient. In fact, Snapchat<\/a> just reported that their cloud bill will exceed their revenue if they don\u2019t find an alternative to their AWS architecture. Your developers need to know how much I\/O, disk, CPU, RAM and other resources their code uses. This is the way code was developed for mainframes decades ago. Lots of attention was paid to the \u201cefficiency\u201d of an application.<\/p>\n

But it is possible to use cloud services and still seize control of your outcomes. A full-service cloud provider has cost controls and resiliency built in to the architecture so you don\u2019t have to rewrite your application. Online Tech offers protection against hardware failure built right into the infrastructure, and we offer the capability for an application to easily switch over to a different region, using Disaster Recovery as a Service<\/a>. We have the data replication you need baked into the system at a fixed cost\u2014meaning you don\u2019t lose control of your costs, or your uptime.<\/p>\n

The public cloud is a fantastic tool when used the right way, but if you\u2019re not careful, you will soon find you\u2019ve lost control of your business when the next outage happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon\u2019s S3 outage\u00a0yesterday brought down a large part of the internet, leaving thousands of companies and their customers stranded. While the outage itself only lasted about four hours, the effects were felt for much longer, and it highlighted how reliable the public cloud truly is. One of the hardest things about cloud adoption for CIOs is dealing with the sense of losing control. For many CIOs, this came to light yesterday in AWS\u2019 outage. That sense of loss of control weighed heavy on many executives and IT staff as they watched their websites and applications stop working, frustrating their entire customer base. The promise of the public cloud is that it\u2019s more affordable, and highly available. But the outage yesterday provided a reality check: If you\u2019re going to use a high scale public cloud, you need to rewrite your application so that it can run in multiple regions. Few companies do this, thinking that the cloud is already resilient. It\u2019s not. 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