Cloud computing powers the modern economy. Global providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google deliver massive-scale infrastructure that businesses rely on every day. But these platforms are not immune to outages. When they fail, the impact can be wide and costly.
In a recent feature by MaltaCEOs.mt, our Chief of Service Delivery, Sean Cohen, explained why resilience is a design choice. Here’s an extract from that article, with added context for business leaders who want to stay online, always.
Hyperscalers operate vast networks and data centres, offering compute, storage, and services at scale. Their size brings efficiency and reach, but it also concentrates risk. A single disruption can ripple across industries.
Sean Cohen put it simply: “Hybrid deployments and multi cloud design are essential. Relying on a single platform can put operations and trust at risk. By pairing local hosting with public cloud, organisations keep control of critical workloads and reduce exposure to a single point of failure.”
He added: “Resilience starts with clear choices. Identify mission critical workloads and build redundancy. Multi cloud is a business continuity decision, not only a technical one. If one provider has issues, the business should continue.”
Outages are not a question of if. They are a question of when. The organisations that thrive are those that anticipate disruption and build for resilience. Start with three moves:
- Map critical workloads and dependencies.
- Use hybrid placement for the most sensitive systems.
- Spread risk across providers where it adds value.
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Source: Extract adapted from MaltaCEOs.mt article on staying online during hyperscaler outages.