Microsoft And AWS Outages: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Dependency

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Microsoft And AWS Outages: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Dependency
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Emil Sayegh is a serial Tech CEO with over 12 years of experience as a Private Equity backed CEO and more than 25 years in the IT and tech industry.

In a dramatic turn of events, the tech world was shaken again yesterday as both Microsoft and Amazon Web Services experienced significant global outages. These disruptions impacted countless businesses and individual users who depend on these cloud giants for their daily operations. Coming on the heels of thean urgent need for rethinking cloud dependency and software development practices.

Earlier in the day, Microsoft had stated,"We’re currently investigating access issues and degraded performance with multiple Microsoft 365 services and features. More information can be found under MO842351 in the admin center." However, the irony is not lost on frustrated users who are unable to access the admin center or the Service Health Status page for real-time updates.

AWS's outage compounded the issue, with critical services going down and users experiencing connectivity problems. The simultaneous failures of two of the largest cloud providers highlight the potential risks of over-reliance on single cloud platforms.Microsoft has implemented a networking configuration change and performed failovers to alternate networking paths.

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