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What's the alternative here? Do you want them to replicate their infrastructure across different cloud providers with automatic fail-over? That sounds -- heck -- I don't know if modern devops is really up to that. It would probably cause more problems than it would solve...

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They're a company that has to run their own datacenters, you'd expect them to not fall over when a public cloud does.

I was really surprised. The dependence on another enterprise’s cloud services in-general I think is risky, but pretty much everyone does it these days, but I didn’t expect them to be.

well at some level you can contract deploy private instances of clouds as well.

AWS has Outpost racks that let you run AWS instances and services in your own datacenter managed like the ones running in AWS datacenters. Neat but incredibly expensive.

> What's the alternative here? Do you want them to replicate their infrastructure

Cloudflare adverises themselves as _the_ redundancy / CDN provider. Don't ask me for an "alternative" but tell them to get their backend infra shit in order.

There are roughly 20-25 major IaaS providers in the world that should have close to dependency on each other. I'm almost certain that cloud flare believe that was their posture, and that the action items coming out of this post mortem will be to make sure that this is the case.

I would expect them to not rely on GCP at all

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