A weekend storm has heavily damaged Amazon's operations in Australia as their power failures were suffered by businesses for a long time period.
Amazon faces tough times in Australia after the Sydney storms halted the operations of number of Amazon Web Services consumers. As a result, a warning has been issued to Australia based businesses that they should spread the risk in their cloud computation operations across various different areas. The fierce storms that hit New South Wales, left clients of AWS including Stan and Domain, The Iconic, FoxTel and Domino’s Pizza without key systems or websites accessibility for hours.
The storms also serve as reality check and underline the fact that choosing cloud computing over on-premise hosting doesn’t mitigate the risk of expensive failure. The fiasco tarnished the organization’s image –which, over the years, represented strong reliance –and brought upon a huge humiliation for Amazon, which earned $2.57 billion sales revenue in the recent quarter. The catastrophe pointed out that the consumers who had acute trust on company were stopped from carrying out their trading from mid-afternoon till late morning on 6th June 2016.
AWS didn’t respond to the questions when asked what caused the humungous failure. A spokesperson also refused to share views regarding whether affected enterprises would be eligible for compensation, and what destruction the failure has led to for its own local business.
It’s assumed that energy was lost in numerous systems in its own data center, prior to being restored around two hours and 30 minutes later. It then took a huge amount of time for certain systems to be re-booted as well as brought back online. Experts stated consumers who insisted that their data and every system that remained in the country had been affected, as other consumers traded normally after moving the data to Singapore.
Analyst at IBRS Joe Sweetney stated most would use the failure as an instance of why enterprises must not adopt cloud computation. Nevertheless, it was a big wake-up call for enterprises to organize their technology in such a manner that the failure of one data center wouldn’t be as fatal as the current one.
During weekend storms, outages were faced as over 226,000 houses as well as businesses lost energy. Public transport, bridges and roads were also harmed. Mobile ordering and payment service provider AirService’s main provider is AWS, but had another one prepared to go in case of a failure.
"As amazing as AWS is, and we've been using it for a long time, we do understand that things can sometimes go wrong," AirService CEO Dominic Bressan stated..
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