Users need to focus upon cost, security, and availability to reap full cloud benefits. This article, part 3 in a series, present key aspects of availability monitoring.
While cost brings people to the cloud, agility and availability keep them using. For sophisticated users, AWS (and other public clouds) offers tremendous advantages in terms of availability – need another 100 servers? We can spin those up instantly. Unexpected CDN demand? No problem. Want to test something out? We’ll get the resources right away.
The public cloud offers nearly unlimited capacity in a nearly instantaneous manner.
However, using a public cloud is far more complex than it first appears. There are numerous opportunities for missteps. Unfortunately, the errors are rarely obvious and always sacrifice functionality (see a detailed survey of actual user errors).