If you are in the information business (and who isn’t?), what if you can’t get to that information? Worse, what if your customers can’t get to information you store for them, or their customers can’t get to their web pages?
“Amazon Outage Hits Cloud Customers,” The Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2017 B4. Failure at a storage center just outside of Washington, D.C. lasted about 4 hours and affected Amazon Web Services. Uptime/downtime, and reliability.
What’s your plan if your main storage goes out? How does your business continue to operate?