IBM Develops AI ’Undo Button’ to Mitigate Costly Cloud Outages
Cloud outages now cost enterprises approximately $14,000 per minute—a 10% increase from 2022—prompting urgent demand for faster resolution tools. IBM and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have responded with STRATUS, an AI system featuring transactional rollback capabilities akin to Ctrl+Z functionality.
STRATUS outperforms existing solutions by 150% in Microsoft and IBM benchmark tests, leveraging transactional-no-regression (TNR) methodology to enforce reversible, non-breaking changes. The innovation addresses a critical gap in AI-powered incident response: the inability to autonomously revert faulty decisions without human intervention.