What the Global Cloud Outage
Taught Us About True Continuity
Global Cloud outages highlight the need for Hybrid Cloud resilience. Active-active setups keep businesses online when public Cloud providers fail.
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If my Cloud provider went down tomorrow, would my business stay online and remain trading?
If the answer isn’t a confident “yes,” it’s time to reconsider your business continuity strategy . . .
Recent outages from AWS (20-10-25) and Azure (30-10-25) left global organisations offline for hours. Critical applications went dark, disrupting entire operations, along with the associated revenue streams and the cost of a workforce unable to work!
These incidents show that while public Cloud offers scale, speed, and convenience, it does not guarantee business continuity and have huge vulnerabilities. By adopting a Hybrid Cloud model: Active, mirrored, and always ready, businesses can keep running even when the global giants stumble.
The risk of single-Cloud dependency
Even the biggest platforms experience misconfigurations, DNS disruptions, regional network failures, and cascading impacts across services. When that happens, every business relying solely on that environment goes down with it.
For UK businesses, the cost of downtime extends far beyond IT, from missed orders and lost productivity to reputational harm and compliance exposure.
The smarter approach: Hybrid Cloud in active-active mode
A hybrid Cloud architecture bridges the gap between public and private Cloud environments. Configured in an active-active setup, workloads run concurrently across both.
If your public Cloud fails, your private environment instantly takes over keeping systems live and users connected. This isn’t backup. It’s live resilience, engineered for real-world business continuity.
Why it matters
Continuity without compromise: Services stay up, customers stay connected.
Reduced risk: Eliminate single points of failure.
Greater control: Decide where data sits and how failover occurs.
Compliance confidence: Keep sensitive or regulated workloads within UK-sovereign data centres.
Efficiency: Both environments deliver value, not just during a crisis.
When the Cloud fails, continuity shouldn’t. Hybrid Cloud keeps you running. It’s the simplest way to protect your business from single-provider risk and ensure critical systems stay online, no matter what happens. Build resilience into your strategy now, not after the next outage.
We can help you implement this seamlessly. Contact us and one of our Cloud specialists will walk you through the next steps tailored to your business requirements
