In 20+ years in the industry, all my biggest outages have been AWS... and they seem to be happening annually.
Most of my on-prem days, you had more frequent but smaller failures of a database, caching service, task runner, storage, message bus, DNS, whatever.. but not all at once. Depending on how entrenched your organization is, some of these AWS outages are like having a full datacenter power down.
Might as well just log off for the day and hope for better in the morning. That assumes you could login, which some of my ex-US colleagues could not for half the day, despite our desktops being on-prem. Someone forgot about the AWS 2FA dependency..
Most of my on-prem days, you had more frequent but smaller failures of a database, caching service, task runner, storage, message bus, DNS, whatever.. but not all at once. Depending on how entrenched your organization is, some of these AWS outages are like having a full datacenter power down.
Might as well just log off for the day and hope for better in the morning. That assumes you could login, which some of my ex-US colleagues could not for half the day, despite our desktops being on-prem. Someone forgot about the AWS 2FA dependency..