Your business relies on cloud services to keep things running smoothly. And everything seems fine until there’s a major service outage. Sadly, it happens. There’s a risk that panic mode sets in, employees become frustrated, customers become unhappy, and your revenue takes a hit.
This is where a new outage simulator from Amazon Web Services (AWS) steps in. It lets you put chaos engineering into practice at scale.
You can simulate scenarios like AWS Availability Zone full power interruptions, or connectivity loss to another AWS region.
It helps you understand your direct and indirect dependencies on AWS services and, more importantly, test how quickly you can recover after an outage.
And yes, cloud services are supposed to be reliable, but recent events, including geopolitical tensions and some embarrassing blunders (like that infamous Azure outage caused by a typo!), have made it clear that we can’t take service reliability for granted.
With AWS’s new outage simulator, you can take proactive steps to ensure your business is ready for any curveball that the digital world might throw at you.
Of course, this is all only applicable if you use AWS for your business’s cloud services. If you use another company, this testing isn’t available. However, you can still test your resilience and create a resilience strategy.
Whether you need assistance setting up a simulation, analysing the results, or creating a comprehensive outage strategy tailored to your business, my team can help. Get in touch.
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https://www.techradar.com/pro/aws-will-now-let-you-simulate-a-major-cloud-outage-to-see-how-well-your-company-copes