The current service problems at AWS and the resulting global outages clearly demonstrate once again how vulnerable digital value chains are when key providers fail. Against this backdrop, many companies are questioning their cloud infrastructure—issues such as digital sovereignty are becoming noticeably more important.
Our founder and CEO Martin Hager comments:
The current global outages caused by server problems at AWS ruthlessly expose the dependencies of many digital services: if a central cloud provider fails, entire value chains come to a standstill. Such events are annoying and often hit teams hard, even if they are part of business operations. This makes it all the more important to be well prepared. Against this backdrop, it is critical for organizations to assess where workloads are best placed, factoring in criticality, compliance, latency, and transparency at every level.
Digital sovereignty is becoming increasingly important in the United States as organizations rely more heavily on a small number of global cloud providers. Questions are emerging about control, resilience, and accountability of data and sensitive information. Failures of this magnitude should therefore be carefully evaluated in companies. Once the problems have been “digested,” it is important to consistently implement necessary changes. The goal should be resilient, sovereign, and cost-conscious cloud usage with less dependency, more visibility, and greater freedom of choice.
Retarus customers were not affected by the AWS problems, btw – we deliberately operate our services without public cloud services from US hyperscalers.
