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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): April Edition 2023

Focus on resilience engineering in cloud services

Submitted
October 17, 2024
Published
2023-01-18

Abstract

Resilience engineering in cloud services is becoming increasingly vital as organizations rely on the cloud to support critical operations. This approach emphasizes designing systems that can withstand and quickly recover from failures, disruptions, or unexpected challenges, ensuring continuous availability and performance. In today's dynamic and often unpredictable digital landscape, resilience engineering goes beyond traditional disaster recovery by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and enhancing system robustness. By focusing on building resilience into cloud services, businesses can mitigate risks associated with hardware failures, cyberattacks, and software bugs, all while maintaining a seamless user experience. The cloud's inherent complexity, with its distributed architecture and multi-layered infrastructure, presents unique challenges that require innovative strategies for fault tolerance, redundancy, and real-time monitoring. Resilience engineering fosters a mindset that embraces failure as a learning opportunity, driving continuous improvement and adaptation. It involves collaboration across development, operations, and security teams to create a culture where resilience is ingrained in every aspect of the cloud service lifecycle. As cloud adoption continues to grow, resilience engineering is becoming a cornerstone of cloud strategy, enabling organizations to achieve long-term success by maintaining trust, reliability, and operational excellence. This focus on resilience ensures that cloud services are not only robust and reliable but also adaptable to future challenges, making them a key enabler of digital transformation.

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