Start Prepping Now for the Next Cloud Outage

This past outage was the worst one since... the last one.

Outage

Nov 5, 2025

1

min read

By

Harshit Omar

Last week's major cloud outage from AWS was unexpected but inevitable. With countless hours of lost productivity, financial systems disrupted for millions of users, and potentially hundreds of billions of dollars lost, this AWS outage made for an unquestionably terrible day for global IT teams. Of course, it was also the worst global cloud catastrophe since the last one…and until the next.

Whether you’re on AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other platform, major outages are a given of cloud computing reality. So what can your firm do to soften the blow? Read my four steps that your team can take immediately on Unite.AI here: https://www.unite.ai/start-prepping-now-for-the-next-cloud-outage/

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