# How to be prepared for cloud provider outages

DevFeed: [How to be prepared for cloud provider outages](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-be-prepared-for-cloud-provider-outages-11605.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/how-to-be-prepared-for-cloud-provider-outages>)

Author: Gavin Cahill

Published: 2025-06-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>)

Tags: [after-the-retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/after-the-retrospective.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how hidden dependencies can amplify cloud provider outages, using a GCP outage and its effects on Cloudflare as examples. It recommends resilience testing, including controlled failure simulations such as Blackhole experiments, to verify failover behavior and graceful degradation before a real outage occurs.

## Source excerpt

Check out these testing best practices teams should follow to minimize the impact of cloud provider outages so they don't catch you by surprise.