Last week’s outage of Amazon Web Services won’t be a reason for lawyers and legal tech providers to give up cloud computing. Still, while such disruptions are to be expected, law firms and tech providers said those incidents reiterate the critical importance of business continuity and backup plans that match evolving tech.

On Dec. 7, AWS’s U.S. East Coast data center went down for roughly seven hours. According to a Dec. 10 post from Amazon.com Inc., the outage was caused by an automated activity to “scale capacity” of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network. The activity triggered an “unexpected behavior” that caused a “surge” of connection activity that overwhelmed networking devices, Amazon wrote. 

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