October 2025 | Stackscale

From High Availability to a Real Plan B: Lessons from the Latest AWS Outage and a Practical Guide

AWS’s October 20 outage reminded us of a simple truth: resilience can’t be improvised. High availability (HA) within a single region helps, but it doesn’t replace a plan B that keeps services running when the common element too many components depend on fails (region, control plane, DNS, queues, identity, etc.). This guide lays out a

VMware vs Proxmox VE: how to choose (for real) for your virtualization platform

At Stackscale we work with VMware vSphere and Proxmox VE every day. Our approach isn’t to “force” a tool, but to fit the platform to the project’s requirements (technical, operational, and business). Below is a practical analysis—aligned with Stackscale’s editorial style—of when each technology makes sense and how that translates into operations, cost, and risk.

Month: October 2025

From High Availability to a Real Plan B: Lessons from the Latest AWS Outage and a Practical Guide

VMware vs Proxmox VE: how to choose (for real) for your virtualization platform

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