Crowdstrike Falcon Incident brings VMs DOWN!—Is Cloud Really Reliable?

Update: Check the end of this article for the options to fix the issue on Microsoft Azure VM and Amazon AWS EC2 instances.

Crowdstrike: It’s 7:43 am EST, and my CIO calls me and says “Have you seen the news? There is a major IT outage. Is it affecting us?”.

In a matter of minutes, I’m connected with my team and peers, investigating and researching the incident, validating the surface of impact in our operations.

The heartbeat comes down while system by system, VM by VM, and each involved resource is validated as not impacted.

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