Everyone’s been weighing in on yesterday’s Google outage experienced by 14% of their user base in Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, Blogger and AdSense. Unfortunately outages do happen inside and outside the enterprise. Some are more visible than others. For all those cloud skeptics sitting on the side lines, saying “I told you” it was unreliable, please take a look at Google uptime over the last 3 years and compare it to any enterprise data center you will be surprised.
So what can we learn from it, especially the enterprises that are thinking of adopting cloud computing? “Visibility” & “Control” are important. It’s incredibly difficult to control how people are using your cloud if you’re unable to see who, when and how people are accessing it. Once a “traffic jam” is visible, then you manage/limit/route traffic appropriately.
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