Cloud Broker

Normal Behavior

An entity that manages the use, performance, and delivery of cloud services.

Failure Behavior

May drop requests or fallback to degraded mode under load.

Business Consequence

A failure in a Cloud Broker platform severs the unified control plane used to provision, govern, and audit resources across multiple public and private cloud providers. This creates a state of 'shadow IT' where engineering teams bypass financial guardrails, leading to unbounded runaway compute costs, deployment of non-compliant infrastructure, and a complete loss of unified billing visibility for the finance department.

Visual Manifestation

"The centralized IT provisioning portal returns 500 Internal Server Error pages, while cost-management dashboards show a flatline of zero dollars, completely masking the millions of dollars in un-tagged AWS EC2 instances currently being spun up in the background."

Satirical Behavior

"A glorified, overpriced web portal designed to prevent developers from clicking buttons in the AWS console, which ultimately just forces them to write Terraform scripts to bypass the portal entirely while IT management proudly stares at a 'governance dashboard'."

Technical Terminology

Failure Indicators