Source: thenewstack.io
What You Can Learn from the AWS Tokyo OutageCategory: Software, Business, Data, Infrastructure
In the movies, it seems like Tokyo is constantly facing disasters — natural ones in the forms of earthquakes and tsunamis, and unnatural ones like giant kaiju and oversized robots. The outage affected business across all sectors, from financial services to retail stores, travel systems and telecommunications.
But the paradox is this: Our applications are more complex and now rely on more external services and systems, and this increases our overall susceptibility to failure.
Problems that arise from failures are apparent and typically fall into two categories: One of the challenges with our complex systems is that they’re also dynamic.
AWS’s outage in Tokyo is just one example of a major incident, but because modern applications are so reliant on third-party services, it’s important that we prepare for these and similar outages.
But the paradox is this: Our applications are more complex and now rely on more external services and systems, and this increases our overall susceptibility to failure.
Problems that arise from failures are apparent and typically fall into two categories: One of the challenges with our complex systems is that they’re also dynamic.
AWS’s outage in Tokyo is just one example of a major incident, but because modern applications are so reliant on third-party services, it’s important that we prepare for these and similar outages.
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