Taking a cue from the Amazon S3 outage, developers have learned how to mitigate issues when moving applications to the cloud.

Even the most reliable cloud systems can go offline, as the Amazon S3 outage clearly proved. Here are some strategies to keep your Java cloud apps running even if Amazon has gone down.

Recently, Amazon made it possible to upload code snippets to Amazon S3, its flagship object storage service for direct deployment of code into the Lambda environment.