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> UniSuper said it lost cloud infrastructure in “two geographies”, a configuration it believed should have kept it safer in an outage situation. But in the end
by jsiepkes 2y ago
> UniSuper said it lost cloud infrastructure in “two geographies”, a configuration it believed should have kept it safer in an outage situation.
But in the end, it's still a single system. As can be seen here. So it might help you when the DC burns down but it won't protect you from software bugs of your cloud provider.
- deanCommie 2y agoDepends on the cloud provider. Some take regional independence (and even further, availability-zone independence) more seriously than the others. Or to state it even more definitively, only one of the public cloud providers offers clear guarantees of availability-zone disaster recovery independence, never mind regions. And it's not Google's or Microsoft's.