We’re in the Cloud, So We’re Covered, Right?

For the past decade, conversations within the IT community have been largely dominated by talk of “the cloud” and all of the promise it brings for transforming the way businesses operate. In the eyes of many, the cloud is a magical place where applications scale forever and are resilient to all of the failures we’ve historically sought to mitigate in our on-premises data centers. After all, some cloud services are engineered for 99.999999999% durability. That’s 11 nines! By that math, we can expect one second of downtime every 3,000 years, right? What are the chances it will fail? The mystique…