To recap this roller-coaster week: it was a reminder that “the cloud” is still made of buildings, cables and people on the ground.
AirportLabs serves most of the major airports in the Middle East. When AWS data centres in the region were hit by drones and 2 out of 3 availability zones went offline, none of the solutions we run for those airports were affected.
That’s not luck, that’s design: multi-zone, multi-cloud, tested disaster recovery, and an architecture that assumes bad days will come.
As a precaution, some customers chose to migrate workloads to other cloud providers and other geographies. Those migrations are happening while airports stay open and flights keep operating - which is exactly the kind of “boring resilience” we’ve been building for the last 11 years.
I wish everyone a quiet, safe weekend. We’ll keep the operations safe so passengers and airport teams can focus on everything else.