During a Multi-Cloud Failover Drill, What Failed First?

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If your team has run a failover exercise involving two cloud providers, what failed first and what did you change afterward?

This discussion focuses on drill outcomes, not the overall pros and cons of adopting multi-cloud. A backup restore to another provider is also a useful example if you identify it as that rather than active production failover.

• Was the blocker identity, networking, DNS, data freshness or application configuration?
• What recovery target were you testing?
• Which manual dependency did the exercise reveal?
• Did the next drill confirm that your fix worked?

Do not disclose sensitive infrastructure details. Planned exercises are welcome if clearly labeled.

For strategy context, see Pros and Cons of Multi-Cloud Strategy.