Connectivity programs such as Microsoft Teams and Slack have had outages recently. Think about how often online outages could affect you. What can you do?Įach of us should use the outage to consider our own situation. And bad actors and malicious attackers have definitely taken note" of the outage and assessed potential vulnerabilities, Ives said. While the scale and scope of the outage were "jaw-dropping," Ives said, the damage appears to be "contained."Īmid the COVID-19 pandemic, "we are just that much more reliant on the cloud and a few providers from a data center perspective," he said.
But if you are "delivering a movie or you are a social network where the 'like' button has to work, seriously, how important is it?" Banks, for instance, must try to get as close to 100% as possible, Palmer said. "Everybody has some way they calculate high availability of services," he said. "The only time people think about this experience is when it goes away."
Mark Zuckerberg has reduced every ounce of friction they can about you posting something on a social network," Palmer said. I think the purveyors of our digital lives have gone out of their way to made us feel like it’s always there," said Shelly Palmer, CEO at The Palmer Group, a tech strategy advisory group, and author of "Blockchain – Cryptocurrency, NFTs & Smart Contracts: An executive guide to the world of decentralized finance."Īmazon CEO Jeff Bezos "has reduced every ounce of friction from you buying something. "We just assume all this stuff is here all the time. Over the years, we have grown to expect Netflix to almost instantaneously deliver "True Story" with a click. "It’s just a few dominoes that could shut everything down."Īmazon Web Services provides cloud computing services to a wide range of companies as well as government agencies and colleges and universities.Īmazon said it was “actively working towards recovery.” It did not say what caused Tuesday's outage which began midmorning on the East Coast.
"It’s a scary reminder of the double-edged sword around the digital transformation," said Daniel Ives, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities.