Unstopped

Modern software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings are highly dependent on external cloud providers to run and work reliably, but nothing comes without conditions or comes free, especially public cloud services. Nowadays, public cloud services are company cost centers, with strict measures in place to control costs. Like all modern distributed systems, all major cloud service providers go through major downtime now and then. Both cost-control measures and downtime hamper internal development, quality assurance (QA), and other dependent stakeholders by blocking productivity. These reasons are enough to consider emulating the required cloud services to unblock internal teams, keep them working on their goals with full control, and avoid any resistance or other unnecessary blocking requirements such as money, access policies, and so on. Cloud providers also started realizing these needs and started providing…