Looking at my 300ms ping with 1500ms jitter…

(Yes, I counted the zeros)

Yes, if everything is configured correctly, then an outage can be either avoided completely or reduced to the time it takes to switch the traffic over (and scale up and so on). But this is not the case as can be seen from today’s events.

Ah, multi cloud. Before we had an outage when AWS went down, now we have an outage every time any cloud provider goes down