Cloud Outages: Lessons in Resilience and Error Budgets

About this episode

The episode discusses recent cloud outages and strategies for improving resilience.

We explore recent cloud outages at AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare, uncovering what caused them and why they matter. Nate Sherman and Matt Glenn share practical strategies for resilience, including error budgets, smarter monitoring, and balancing automation speed with change management.

People in this episode

Guests: Nate Sherman, Matt Glenn

Topics covered

• cloud computing
• resilience
• error budgets
• monitoring
• automation

Keywords

• cloud outages
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloudflare
• error budgets
• smarter monitoring
• automation speed
• change management

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Azure, Cloudflare, AWS

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