Protocol wrote a piece about the volatility of cloud services and how insurance can cover financial losses from outages that knock businesses offline.
“The 3-year-old startup offers cloud downtime insurance to compensate policyholders for their financial losses — or their customers’ losses — when their cloud provider has a service disruption. On average, one of the three major public cloud providers — AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud — experienced an outage lasting at least 30 minutes every three weeks in 2021, according to Parametrix.”
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About Parametrix
Parametrix is the leading provider of digital infrastructure insurance, protecting organizations against downtime across cloud, AI, SaaS and data center ecosystems. Leveraging a proprietary network of monitoring systems, they collect and analyze billions of data points on the performance and availability of critical infrastructure, enabling real-time underwriting and claims automation. Parametrix’s solutions help businesses, data center stakeholders, and (re)insurers to quantify, manage, and transfer the financial risks of downtime with unmatched precision. The company is a Managing General Agent and Lloyd’s Coverholder, with policies backed by major A-rated global insurers, and is headquartered in New York.

