> This morning was a wake-up call for the price we pay for over-reliance on big cloud providers. It is completely unsustainable for an outage with one provider being able to bring vast swathes of the internet offline.
Multi-CDN is relatively easy to set up nowadays, and isn't even that expensive.
Unfortunately, if you want to use Cloudflare then you need to have your DNS with them - at least, unless you're willing to pay $200/month for their business tier in order to unlock support for CNAMEing to them rather than giving them control of your zone.
There's not a *lot* of point in setting up multi-CDN if your authoritatives are tied to one of the providers that you're trying to mitigate against.
It's a business choice by Cloudflare, but is part of the reason that outages there are so severe. If something happens to Cloudfront, Akamai, Fastly etc then there's the option to flip traffic away from them (it can even be done automatically) and serve via a different CDN until things settle down.
It's a core part of why I neither use or recommend Cloudflare: they might be huge, but they're still a single basket and mistakes happen. Not having an option to move traffic away from longer outages isn't really acceptable.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
