But, will my Cloud application always work ?

Well … no it will not if there is no Cloud. It is as simple as that. But what that actually means ?

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First if this has never happened to You, you are one of the lucky ones. Here is my experience while working from London (2012-AUG-18 07:41).

The key questions:

  1. How often will this Cloud application be unusable?
  2. How frequently this might happen?
  3. What part of the global infrastructure was at fault?

Now, when the initial artificial debate “Will it ever happen ?” (Yes it will), we can start seriously thinking about all the possible answers to the three simple questions above.