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BlogMulticloudComplexity and Cost Versus Risk

Complexity and Cost Versus Risk

Mike Maney
Mike Maney
December 10, 2021
Unclouded Blog | Linode

All eyes were on AWS the past couple of weeks for both good (Re:invent) and not so good (#hugops) reasons. Both sparked a ton of important industry discussions on a range of topics.

One that stood out was this piece by John Minnihan in TFiR on the topic of complexity and cost versus risk. Because one of the things this week’s US-EAST-1 outage highlighted was the importance of failover strategies (or lack thereof).

It’s worth a read.

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