Enterprises Move Beyond Hyperscalers: StorX Captures Real Use Cases in Multi-Cloud Deployments
2025-12-12 15:15
For much of the last decade, enterprises worldwide trusted hyperscalers as the backbone of their digital operations. But between 2021 and 2025, this trust was repeatedly tested as major cloud providers experienced some of the most disruptive outages in their history — events that exposed the risks of centralization and triggered a structural shift in how organizations think about storage and resilience. Over several years, a series of major cloud failures signaled a growing dependence risk: 2021 (AWS): Regional outage disrupted Disney+, Netflix, Coinbase, DoorDash, and Ring services. 2022 (AWS): Additional failures froze airline reservations, banking dashboards, and logistics networks across North America. 2023 (GCP & Azure): Google Cloud networking outage affected Spotify, Snapchat, and payment processors, while Azure authentication issues locked enterprises out of critical systems. 2024 (Azure & GCP): Microsoft cloud misconfigurations brought down Teams, Outlook, and Office365; Google Cloud outages disrupted major fintech apps; government portals in...
