“We’re deployed across two regions” has become the enterprise answer to the resilience question. Architects include it in design documents, leadership repeats it to auditors, and engineering teams treat it as sufficient. In most cases, it is not. Having infrastructure…
Most organisations that suffered a serious cloud outage in the past two years had a disaster recovery plan. The CrowdStrike incident of July 2024 took down roughly 25% of the Fortune 500 simultaneously, causing an estimated $5.4 billion in direct…
Unplanned cloud downtime costs UK enterprises an average of £4,700 per minute, yet the majority of organisations running in the cloud today have never successfully tested their recovery procedures under realistic conditions. The number is striking not because outages are…
Your weekly dose of actionable cloud wisdom to start the week right The Problem Your entire business runs on AWS, and then eu-west-1 goes down for 6 hours. Or Azure has a global authentication outage. Or Google Cloud has a…
In this post, I’ll walk you through Azure’s resilience architecture in plain language—the way I’d explain it to my own team. We’ll explore what Regions, Availability Zones, Fault Domains, Update Domains, and Region Pairs actually are, how they work together,…
