For the most part, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is incredibly reliable. But today is a particularly difficult day for AWS and its public cloud customers.Indeed, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) has suffered from major outages and issues for portions of today. The problems include “high error rates" across multiple AWS S3 locations, according to the AWS Service Health Dashboard.Affected websites and services include Quora, newsletter provider Sailthru, Business Insider, Giphy, image hosting at a number of publisher websites, filesharing in Slack, and many more, according to TechCrunch. Connected lightbulbs, thermostats and other IoT hardware is also being impacted, with many unable to control these devices as a result of the outage, the media site says.Accenture, which has been acquiring SaaS consulting companies focused on Google Apps, Workday and ServiceNow; Cliqr, which Cisco Systems acquired; Dell Technologies, which owns Boomi; Rackspace, which is building out managed services for AWS and Azure; and VMware, which is betting its business on multi-cloud management. Again, I'm not suggesting multi-cloud management is a silver bullet solution that protects customers from specific cloud outages. But I wonder: How many channel partners know how to backup critical services from one cloud -- and restore them in another?Hmmm...
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