In the article “How do cloud service outages happen?,” the Washington Examiner explores the causes and effects of cloud service outages following two major disruptions in the span of a month. To explain cloud service providers, why outages happen, the reasons for outages, the risks they pose to both providers and consumers, and what can be done to mitigate them, such as Timothy Wood, an associate professor of computer science at GW Engineering.
Here is an excerpt from the article: “It ranges from electricity striking something and bringing down power to some part of the data center, to a shark chewed through a cable off of the coast of Africa and part of Africa lost internet for a long time,” Wood said. “Or it can be malicious. It can be attackers trying to bring down these services.”
Read the full article on the Washington Examiner.