In “Industry Shops Feel Fallout of AWS Outage” (Ignites, 21 October 2025), Kevin Noble comments on how the recent AWS outage highlights the need for financial institutions and service providers to plan ahead for potential service disruptions—regardless of the source—and set in place contingency plans in case such an event occurs. Kevin shares a key factor to consider: the firm’s “survival time,” or how long its systems can endure an outage. He explains: “Companies that can tolerate a few hours of downtime should prioritize data protection and establish early warning systems. Large firms with zero tolerance for outages should use multiple cloud providers, which is expensive but can greatly improve resilience if there’s an outage.”
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