A Stand-In Is Not a Backup: Designing for a Full Cloud Outage
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A full cloud outage is a different failure A cloud provider can fail in a way that leaves machines running but makes the system hard to operate. Deployment APIs, identity, DNS, service discovery, and queues may be unreachable. A backup image is not much help if the team cannot provision it or obtai…
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- 2026-08-29 11:57 · DEV Community — AI
A Stand-In Is Not a Backup: Designing for a Full Cloud Outage