Amazon Outage Disrupts Lives, Surprising People About Their Cloud Dependency

Due to the Amazon cloud outage, a couple had to 'manually' feed their cats 'like in ancient times'

A global survey released in September by Uptime Institute LLC, a provider of consulting services on data-center reliability, found that 69% of data-center operators had some sort of outage in the past three years. Human error played a role in 78% of those incidents and 44% had major financial, reputational and other consequences.

“Everybody is in finals mode right now,” she said. “If there was ever the worst time for Canvas to crash, this would be it.” It isn’t always clear right away when an outage is taking place. David Danto was initially confused when the waterproof internet-enabled device he recently set up in his shower wouldn’t play the radio news channel he requested. The 59-year-old thought perhaps he had installed it wrong or his home internet was down.

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