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I wasn't comparing uptime needs of a hospital versus an airline, but their security needs. Every major cloud provide offers multiple independent regions, and I

I wasn't comparing uptime needs of a hospital versus an airline, but their security needs. Every major cloud provide offers multiple independent regions, and I haven't heard of any suffering from a multi-region outage. If an airline's application can't tolerate an outage, then they better not host it in a single region, whether they host it themselves or host it in the cloud. Delta is on day 2 of their outage, Southwest's was 12+ hours. Google had a major outage in April -- it lasted 18 minutes. In June, AWS lost a single Availability Zone (out of 3) in Sydney for about 12 hours.

taspeotis 10y ago
> I haven't heard of any suffering from a multi-region outage. It has happened in the past [1]. [1] http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300074866/microsoft-explains-what-went-wrong-in-latest-global-azure-outage.htm http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300074866/microsoft-explains-w...
tmptmp 10y ago
>>I wasn't comparing uptime needs of a hospital versus an airline, but their security needs. Uptime needs are security needs too for various reasons. e.g. lack of uptime is just another way to get a Denial of Service attack. edit: a typo