# Handling third-party provider outages

DevFeed: [Handling third-party provider outages](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/handling-third-party-provider-outages-12042.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/third-party-outages>)

Author: Lisa Karlin Curtis

Published: 2022-06-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [multi-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multi-cloud.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines how third-party provider outages affect service availability. It explains that dependencies generally need much higher availability than the systems that rely on them, while noting that pursuing extreme reliability can be disproportionately expensive. It presents multi-cloud architecture as a way to withstand a complete cloud-provider outage, but emphasizes its cost and added complexity.

## Source excerpt

What do you do when Cloudflare goes down? Or AWS?