Hexafusion IT Solutions Blog

When millions of users around the world woke up on Monday morning, October 20, 2025, they found their favorite apps and services completely unresponsive. Snapchat wouldn't load. Canva refused to open. Fortnite players couldn't connect to servers. Even Amazon's own Alexa smart assistants sat silent, unable to respond to commands. The culprit? A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that exposed just how fragile our interconnected digital infrastructure really is.

For businesses relying on cloud services, this incident serves as a wake-up call. When a single infrastructure provider experiences problems, the ripple effects can shut down operations across the globe. This blog post breaks down what happened, which services were affected, and what your business can learn from this widespread disruption.

Your business runs on data. You keep customer information, invoices, project files, inventory and much more. If you were to lose it, you face a myriad of problems from hits to your reputation to major downtime. Today is World Backup Day, so we thought it would be good to highlight just how important having a feature-rich and reliable backup strategy is.

When a business uses the cloud for any reason, its cloud solutions and resources must be sufficiently reliable. Let’s examine what it is that makes the cloud reliable, and how to ensure you accomplish this essential baseline.

Your business needs to consider business continuity if it wants to outlast the competition, and to do so, you need a data backup plan. Let’s look at some steps you can take today to protect your small business from potentially disastrous situations.

Tape backup used to be the go-to backup solution for businesses, but it’s since lost its luster in favor of digital backup solutions. You might still find some uses for it, if you find a good enough excuse. Today, we want to examine why you might still use tape backup, even though a Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution far outshines it.