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Not sure about recent incidents but cascading downtime is definitely a problem e.g., when S3 has an outage.

I hear the multi-cloud redundancy idea talked about a lot but I'd be curious to see data around how many people do this in practice.

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I think the number is much lower than people realize. There are a lot of multi-billion dollar companies that still operate in one region and don't have a solid disaster recover plan.

There's a lot of multi billion dollar companies still coming to terms with one provider, let alone redundancy.

I think the trend of software startup companies to use 3rd-party services to run their business is similar to the JIT (Just-In-Time) practice in manufacturing industry. When something happens in the supply chain, it will affect the whole ecosystem, too much dependency.

How many of the startups still run their own servers? Standalone service without database PaaS? No external CDN Javascript libraries? :-)

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