Amazon’s recent cloud service outage points out the vulnerability of these types of services. The outage “underscores the importance of taking a broad risk management approach to adopting cloud computing,” says Jim Reavis, executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Reavis says CSA uses several cloud providers, including Amazon. “We did not experience downtime in our AWS usage because of the redundancy we built into the application architecture,” he says. Reavis: “You can even build applications to fail over to a second or third cloud provider””]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2128340/amazon-outage-a-valuable-lesson-in-cloud-security.html