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A failure with the data centres cooling procedures meant Microsoft had to shut down its servers which led to a cloud outage with its platform, Azure.

A cloud outage caused many of Bambu's 3D printers to start printing all on their own over night

When owners of Bambu’s P1P and X1C 3D printers woke up on August 15th, some found their printer had gone rogue. It printed objects all by itself, some of which damaged people’s printers.

Climate change, instability, and geopolitical competition make major cloud outages increasingly likely.

Despite best efforts by CIOs to avoid cloud outages, the inevitable happens. Safe recovery is possible, and efforts are less stressful with proper planning.

Google experienced an outage of its Search, Maps, and Images services on August 8 for about 30 minutes. The outage was attributed to an internal error at the company with software.

Cloud outage

The cloud is not infallible, and outages are inevitable. Here’s what IT leaders need to know about whether and how to recoup from a cloud outage.

CIOs may have grumbled when Amazon Web Services experienced an outage of 8 hours in December 2021. But their early scramble to build failovers to alternative cloud providers stalled when they found out what it would cost in capital spent and technological complexity. Today, CIOs and other IT leaders have gained a more sophisticated understanding of the tradeoffs between resilience and cost. You get what you pay for, and if your cloud outage isn't impacting revenue, you may be able to wait a...

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