Avoiding “The 5 Stages of Networking Grief” during CSP Outages
Your customers – internal and external – don’t care about a single region of AWS being down while the rest of the internet is operating normally. You may be able to do this on your own, but I recommend that you do everything you can to avoid the 5 Stages of Network Grief.
The IP address is dead
In public cloud the IP address is here today, different tomorrow. The application and its FQDN, however, remain unchanged.
The immutable link between CloudOps and user experience
It appears that execution, realization, and control of user experience is something that has eluded all of us who have been responsible for creating, securing, or enhancing the path to an application. Not just for a time, for decades. We all knew it was a problem, yet we accepted that daily break/fix tickets were simply a part of life that we would never escape.
Go to the cloud, but leave your L3 stack at home.
The challenge that many organizations are now facing is that while application engineering has moved on, network and security have not. This statement should not be seen as an indictment or organizational failure; the cloud did not suddenly appear fully formed. We all have had to change and adapt as public cloud matured.
