To say the cloud is important to how we work, live, and play is a major understatement – the cloud is now a critical element of tech infrastructure. However, what underlies these outages is often a mystery. That’s why I was intrigued by a recent webcast from ThousandEyes, which looked under the covers at the major cloud outages of 2023.
Hosted by Brian Tobia, ThousandEyes’ Lead Technical Marketing Engineer, the webcast included a look at the anatomy of an outage. “It’s important to understand the different types of outages we see,” he said. “Understanding them can help you understand how to mitigate some of their impact.” He said outages could vary in the blast radius, whether they’re planned or unplanned, and their mean time to recovery.