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i'll bet there are a large number of systems that are dependent on multiple cloud platforms being up without even knowing it. They run on AWS, but rely on a tool from someone else that runs on GCP or on Azure and they haven't tested what happens if that tools goes down...

Common Cause Failures and false redundancy are just all over the place.



Case in point is recent-ish Google Cloud downtime, which ended up taking down Cloudflare and half the internet with it.




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