I started using "The Cloud" in 2012 to build apps. At the time they called it Google App Engine. In the last 13 years a lot has changed and I've used all the main cloud offerings.
I've been a part of many outages that originated on our cloud provider. And what I've learned is the best practices rarely save you. We pretend multi-az, global DBs and fail overs protect us, but they don't. They make us more scale able, but not more resilient.
Cloud outage knocks out internet services across the globe
(zdnet.com)39 points by CrankyBear 12 June 2025 | 5 comments
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I've been a part of many outages that originated on our cloud provider. And what I've learned is the best practices rarely save you. We pretend multi-az, global DBs and fail overs protect us, but they don't. They make us more scale able, but not more resilient.