Month: December 2020

How to avoid being affected by the next AWS outage

The AWS outage that started in the early hours of November 25th was significant for companies who have their systems in Amazon’s Northern Virginia US-East-1 region and use its Kinesis service or other AWS services reliant on Kinesis. The impact was felt by companies including Adobe Spark, Roku and iRobot, all of which confirmed that some …

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Podcast: Co-founder & CTO about parametric downtime insurance

This podcast originally appeared on InsTech London. Covid-19 has led to insurance companies ramping up the speed of their digital evolution, but relying on third-party services like a cloud provider creates new external risks that need insuring. Parametrix Insurance was launched 18 months ago to protect businesses from the hidden costs of going offline. As well …

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