Unveiling How the Cloud Ensured a Glitch-Free 2023 Election- Against What You Were Told
By Taghogho Von Apochi. Let's explore why the 2023 Nigerian elections ran smoothly with zero technical hiccups. The INEC story of a technical glitch may not be totally correct. Think of it as a flawless performance, thanks to the power of cloud technology like AWS. AWS is the world's number public cloud provider and Microsoft Azure is number 2, and this rating is by fantastic rating organizations like Gartner, knowledge hut, sherweb, revology, and more. This is not an article for only tech heads. It is for all, and I broke it down to pieces. During the elections, the server orchestrating everything was either a virtual machine (VM) deployed or the resources already available in the cloud was used either way, let's dub it our "Magic Machine or Magic Computer." The big question is what could have gone wrong with our Magic Machine? Let us answer this with two possibilities: 1. Internet Glitch: The INEC devices connecting to the server (Magic Machine), known as BVAS, ...