
Over 90% of enterprises operating today use cloud computing in some way, and 97% of IT decision makers intend to expand their organization’s use of cloud computing. However, many of these enterprises rely on a single provider for cloud services. This creates a single point of failure for their digital infrastructure, a significant vulnerability. Outages, such as the 10/20/25 AWS outage, can have knock-on effects on many services. This is why enterprises benefit from maintaining reliable alternatives to cloud computing for critical day-to-day operations.
Provider-level redundancy is no guarantee of uptime–no one system is immune to failure. The AWS outages demonstrate that “cloud-native” status is not inherently “resilient”.
On-prem services can serve as co-equal “partners” for cloud-based services, or simply as a failover option in the event of an outage or other technical issue. It’s impossible to entirely engineer away risk, and since no cloud service has perfect uptime, regardless of how large it is, the most resilient organizations insure themselves against failure with a variety of measures including phased rollouts and auto-rollback capabilities.

