Cloud Resilience Fails When It Meets Physical Reality
Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
The Register's analysis exposes a gap in enterprise cloud architecture: systems designed for digital redundancy fail when faced with physical disruptions like warfare, infrastructure damage, and supply chain breakdowns affecting the underlying data centers. Cloud providers lack incentive or capability to solve regional physical risks, leaving organizations that treat cloud as "set and forget" infrastructure dependent on geographic luck and geopolitical stability rather than engineering.