Examining Common Cloud Issues
While cloud issues can appear to be specific to one service, they can span across many different components and services in the cloud. In an effort to create some structure to troubleshooting, we have grouped some of the more common issues in this section. These broad categories act as pointers, or hints, to where a problem may reside. Also, when troubleshooting, eliminating these categories as the issue can help lead you to the issue.
Automation
What could possibly go wrong with a fully automated system where just the click of an icon unleashes a host of cloud automation scripts? Well, many things can go wrong! Not only that, automation often hides the complexity from the user and does not always report results to the person using these automated services.
The ability to troubleshoot automation-related problems comes down to whether you control the process or another party such as the cloud provider does. If the automated systems are part of the backend...
