Intelligence Update
Cloud resiliency: plan to lose control of your planes
Cloud providers divide the technologies that underpin their services into two ”planes”, each with a different architecture and availability goal. The control plane manages resources in the cloud; the data plane runs the cloud buyer’s application.
In this Update, Uptime Institute Intelligence presents research that shows control planes have poorer availability than data planes. This presents a risk to applications built using cloud-native architectures, which rely on the control plane to scale during periods of intense demand. We show how overprovisioning capacity is the primary way to reduce this risk. The downside is an increase in costs.
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