The AWS outage took banking platforms, airlines, media outlets, delivery apps, and a wide range of essential websites and services offline

A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.

One of the big challenges that admins have always faced is that application workload demands change over time. As time goes on, demand for an application might increase or decrease, but the demand is unlikely to remain constant. Back when all workloads ran ...