Don’t waste your next cloud outage
In the past year, cloud outages have exposed a hard truth about the modern digital economy: A disruption at one hyperscaler can quickly spread far beyond a single vendor’s platform. Failures in cloud control planes, identity systems, storage layers, and core regions have disrupted business operations, developer workflows, and consumer services worldwide. From Google Cloud’s internetwide disruption to repeated outages at AWS and Microsoft Azure, the pattern is now impossible to ignore. As organizations deepen their dependence on a small number of providers, resilience, redundancy, and contingency planning are becoming strategic necessities rather than purely technical concerns. Just consider this list of recent sizeable outages in the past year alone: Google Cloud, June 12, 2025: Google Cloud suffered a major outage that disrupted its own services and rippled across the internet, affecting platforms including Spotify and other downstream applications. AWS, October 20, 2025: AWS experien