Cloud Resiliency Is Up To You

Embrace The Cloud, But Be Aware Of The Risks

by Mark Snodgrass, Managing Director,
Hararei Inc.

Originally posted on LinkedIn on Oct 21st 2025.  Original Article](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sndgrss_its-not-really-in-the-cloud-every-time-activity-7386412407616708609-xO7j)

It's not really in the Cloud.

Every time there is a major Cloud outage, like happened yesterday
with AWS DynamoDB in US-EAST-1, we're reminded that its not really
a Cloud, its just other peoples computers (OPC). Serious IT and
Risk professionals shudder at the potential impact to their
organizations. When Google canceled one of their customers, or
Azure kubernetes services went down (as they did just this month),
serious professionals ask themselves what can be done.

Each of these so-called "major outages" involved just one or two
services at these cloud providers. I can only imagine the mayhem if
it was a fundamental service such as EC2 or EBS.

There is no doubt that the Cloud service model has unleashed a
wave of innovation over the last decade, and has enabled delivery
of services at lightning speed. Overall its a great thing, but
there are risks.

The obvious answer is to not put all your eggs in the one basket.
Diversify your providers. Use a combination of services, whether in
cloud or on-prem to provide resiliency. There is no silver bullet.
There's no checkbox that says make my cloud operations resilient.
There is provider risk whether its on-prem or cloud, and those
risks need to be mitigated.

Cloud resilience is not something you can just buy. You need a
plan, an architecture and a team that knows how to implement
resiliency at scale.