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title: "Discussion on \"Is multi-cloud more resilient? The math says no\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"Is multi-cloud more resilient? The math says no\". Multi-cloud promises more resilience and delivers the opposite: more failure surface. Let's open up the availability math, see why the \"if one goes down the other holds\" intuition fools you, and go through the few cases where multi-cloud actually earns its keep."
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# [Is multi-cloud more resilient? The math says no](https://willpeixoto.dev/multi-cloud-less-resilient-availability-math?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Multi-cloud promises more resilience and delivers the opposite: more failure surface. Let's open up the availability math, see why the "if one goes down the other holds" intuition fools you, and go through the few cases where multi-cloud actually earns its keep.

Jul 16 · 22 min read · willpeixoto.dev  
Updated Oct 18  
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Staff Engineer at Serverless Guru, AWS Community Builder and one of the leaders of AWS User Group São Paulo. Writing about serverless, event-driven architecture and AI agents on AWS, with code and the trade-offs on the table.

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