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Triumph@fedia.io 22 hours agoSure, but online services can certainly leverage multiple modules, from multiple companies, hosted in multiple places. So maybe your site mostly works fine, but a key aspect of it is broken.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 21 hours ago
See the above post from the Azure shop … that uses AWS for 2FA tokens
You want to add multiple companies in parallel as alternates/failovers, not in serial where any one failure blocks the whole flow
Triumph@fedia.io 21 hours ago
But that would cost more money, that's anticapitalist.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Yes, it’s much more expensive to have two providers. Both in terms of outright costs but even more so in terms of ongoing engineering/technical overhead.
The calculus is how much the expectation downtime is, versus that cost. It’s a reasonable calculation and TBH if outages are a few hours once every few years for most cases it’s acceptable.
OFC if your hospitals or emergency services depend on a cloud service, you happily fork over the extra money same as you do for any other insurance.
Triumph@fedia.io 21 hours ago
If there's anything I know, it's that "businesspeople" are never proactive.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Also allow things fail gracefully, independent of each other.