> Wouldn't that present another set of complications for a very small edge case at huge cost?
One has to crunch the numbers. What does a service outage cost your business every minute/hour/day/etc in terms of lost revenue, reputational damage, violated SLAs, and other factors? For some enterprises, it's well worth the added expense and trouble of having multi-site active-active setups that span clouds and on-prem.
One has to crunch the numbers. What does a service outage cost your business every minute/hour/day/etc in terms of lost revenue, reputational damage, violated SLAs, and other factors? For some enterprises, it's well worth the added expense and trouble of having multi-site active-active setups that span clouds and on-prem.