That scenario is an example. You complete an action on a web page and nothing works. You make no further changes and hours later it works perfectly. Your human wasn't fast enough that day.
And this was NOT for the government clouds we have that hold classified data. Those are air-gapped clouds that physically cannot be accessed by anyone who doesnt have a TS clearance and physically go into a SCIF.
source: I work in a team very closely related the team who designed digital escort.
I guess we agree on the point where it should not be necessary, which echoes Cutler’s original intent of “no operational intervention.”
This is not an impossible task, after all it’s just user-mode code calling into platform APIs.
I just experienced one startup where the buttons just happen to only work during business hours on the US west coast.
I had one public cloud vendor sales literally admit this was the case with their platform. But they were now selling "the new one" which is supposed to be better.
It was, a lot. But only compared to the old one.