Featuring:
Brent Ellis, Principal Analyst
Kelsey Chickering, Principal Analyst
Stephanie Liu, Senior Analyst
Show Notes:
Recently, a very bad day for AWS became everyone else’s very annoying day. And while the disruption was fairly short-lived, there are longer-term lessons to be learned. In this episode, we look at the lessons from the recent AWS outage as well as an overdue step by a social media giant and a reimagining of how we access information on the web.
- Principal Analyst Brent Ellis explains the causes and impacts of the AWS outage while also providing guidance on what businesses can do to improve resilience during cloud outages.
- Principal Analyst Kelsey Chickering provides context on Meta’s newest safety measures. Learn about its plans to protect younger Facebook and Instagram users and how they could impact marketers and advertisers.
- Senior Analyst Stephanie Liu details the latest innovation from OpenAI: an AI-first browser powered by ChatGPT. Find out what this means for the web browsing experience in the future and how web marketing strategies could change as a result.
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