CLOUD IN THE SILVER LINING

Cloud behemoth Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on a spin with newly-minted offerings that flank the Cloud core well

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When you are battling with big rivals and equally-big Cloud outage impacts, it becomes crucial to find a strong pivot. And Cloud behemoth Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on that spin - pretty much this year. Specially with de-risking efforts to new regions that flank its main AZS and newly-minted offerings that flank the Cloud core well.

Just a few months back, in July 2022, AWS experienced a power failure that disrupted services located within Availability Zone 1 (AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region.

Reportedly, this outage affected connectivity to and from the region and brought down Amazon's EC2 instances, causing some dominoes to topple in applications such as Webex, Okta, Splunk, BambooHR, and others. The power outage lasted approximately 20 minutes, and some of its customers' services and applications took a recovery time of up to three hours.

Reminds you of December 2021, when there was an extended outage in its Eastern U.S. cloud region, when AWS stated it was "pursuing multiple mitigation paths in parallel" and when AWS services, like EC2, Connect, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena, Timestream and Chime, were affected.

Turns out that building in physical redundancy is as important as injecting business redundancy when you achieve a scale and Cloud grip like that of AWS. Such 'big basket' strategies help to diversify risks and erase the 'one trick pony' dangers, if any.

Taking a glance at some latest numbers and announcements from AWS show that this is exactly what the Cloud major has been up to recently.

In its financial results announced for its third quarter ended September 30, 2022, Amazon shared that AWS segment sales increased 27 per cent year-over-year to $20.5 billion. As per some analysts, this could be a slow expansion rate. When compared to the second quarter, this figure takes a new hue.

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