Cloud Provider Outage!

Your Cloud Provider is experiencing an outage! Your websites and databases are all down!

When local data centers were the primary source of online websites and services, a plan was always in place for disaster recovery to be set up in another data center in a different city, in case of an emergency. Multiple internet providers would run to each data center, which had redundant routers, switches, including backup batteries and backup generators.

What do you do now in the cloud? Sure, you can have multi-region setups, migrate or move to another region from backup quickly in the same cloud provider.

But what if the entire cloud provider is offline or multiple services?

As I write this, Google Cloud services are currently experiencing an outage that started several hours ago, and no expected uptime has been provided yet. This is affecting my previous blog post. I was writing as I was trying to upload an image through my website provider.

This is also affecting everyone who currently uses Panera Bread. You cannot access their website, log into their app, redeem your Sip Club Drink through the app, mobile order, or have points added to your account.

I would show you screenshots, but unfortunately, I'm currently unable to upload files.

So, what is your disaster recovery plan? Do you have a multi-region or multi-cloud backup solution in place in case of a multi-hour or day outage?

If you want to prevent this from happening to you and your SQL Servers, please contact me, and we can discuss a plan to ensure you aren't affected by a cloud provider outage.