- June 29, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
On June 8th, I experienced intermittent connectivity to several websites like Amazon, Twitter, and Hulu. Frustrated, I tried multiple attempts at refreshing my browser, but nothing improved. This outage was due to a failure at Fastly, which supports many of the web’s most popular sites (for more detail, see the report posted by Fastly). This incident highlighted the fragility of modern digital infrastructures, at any degree of complexity or style. Specifically, it re-emphasized the importance of a digital architecture with high availability to avoid costly downtime.
How Can Your Business Mitigate The Risk Of Downtime?
It’s important that your business identifies and implements proven principles of establishing a high-availability architecture. For example, if your business manages a private cloud, you’ll need to ensure that your resources possess the following four proven attributes of a highly available system to mitigate downtime:
